Re: diffutils 2.8.1 (RedHat 9 2.8.1-6)

[Paul Eggert]

"Kevin Benton" <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems that diff reports the output line number rather than the line
> number of the file when the first file does not appear in the original
> library but does in the new library.  I am seeing .
>
> diff -burN bugzilla-2.17.4/009.ksh platform/009.ksh
> --- bugzilla-2.17.4/009.ksh     1969-12-31 17:00:00.000000000 -0700
> +++ platform/009.ksh    2004-08-09 08:41:58.000000000 -0600
> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +#!/bin/ksh
> . when there are only 23 lines in the file, 009.ksh.

Thanks for reporting that, but I can't reproduce this problem with the
test version diffutils 2.8.7
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.7.tar.gz>:

   $ rm -fr d e
   $ mkdir d e
   $ seq 1 23 >e/f
   $ diff -burN d e
   diff -burN d/f e/f
   --- d/f      1969-12-31 16:00:00 -0800
   +++ e/f      2004-11-15 23:10:09 -0800
   @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
   +1
   +2
   +3
   +4
   ...

I suppose it could be that the bug was fixed after 2.8.1; or perhaps
Red Hat introduced the problem in its patches.  Without more info it's
hard to tell.