How to Install diffstat in Ubuntu 18.04



Install diffstat by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install diffstat

Description:

produces graph of changes introduced by a diff file

This program is a simple filter that reads the output of the 'diff' program, and produces a histogram of the total number of lines that were changed. It is useful for scanning a patch file to see which files were changed.

Homepage: http://invisible-island.net/diffstat/

Version: 1.61-1build1

Section: devel