uutils-diffutils ☆

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Description:
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU diffutils

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: rust diff cli coreutils cross-platform

Install: brew install uutils-diffutils

About:
Uutils diffutils is a modern, cross-platform reimplementation of the standard GNU diffutils suite, written in Rust. It provides tools like diff, cmp, and diff3 that offer improved performance and memory safety over the original C versions. This makes it a robust drop-in replacement for comparing files and directories on any operating system.

Key Features:

Rust-based implementation for memory safety and performance
Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD)
Drop-in replacement for GNU diffutils
Efficient algorithms for large file comparisons

Use Cases:

Comparing files and directories in cross-platform development environments
Integrating diff capabilities into Rust-based tooling and scripts
Replacing GNU coreutils on systems where C implementations are unavailable or undesirable

Alternatives:

GNU diffutils – The original C implementation; Uutils offers a safer, Rust-native alternative.
git-diff – Built into Git for version control history, whereas Uutils diffutils is a general-purpose system utility.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 12, 2024 12:14pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	8ca09127