[bug-diffutils] bug#69752: bug#69752: New and improved 'diff'.

[Robert Boyer]

Thank you so very much!  

I had never heard of 'cmp'! 

I admit to being a very uninformed individual, and for that I apologize profoundly.

Bob

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

On 3/12/24 09:06, Robert Boyer wrote:
> Here is a better version of diff, better only in the sense that it works on
> all files.

Oh, for that sort of thing you can use the "cmp" command, which is part
of diffutils. It doesn't need to read both files into RAM, so it is more
likely to work for your situation.