Diff vs Iff - What's the difference?
diff | iff |
(slang)
(computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
(computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
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(medicine) : differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
(slang)
(rock climbing) A difficult route.
(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.
(computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
(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.
(mathematics, logic) if and only if; used to show that the truth values of two statements are the same.
As a noun diff
is abbreviation of lang=en.As a verb diff
is 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.As a proper noun diff
is 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.As an abbreviation iff is
if and only if; used to show that the truth values of two statements are the same.As an initialism IFF is
interchange File Format, a file format standard developed for Amiga computers.diff
English
Noun
(en noun)- A peach and an apricot? What's the diff ?
Essay:
- I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs .