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What does diff mean?

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Noun
  1. (slang) Abbreviation of difference.
  2. (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
  3. (computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
  4. (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
  5. (rock climbing) A difficult route.
Verb
  1. (computing) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file.
  2. (computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
Proper noun
  1. (computing) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
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