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Re: Error in diff reporting
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Error in diff reporting |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:34:19 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Marty <address@hidden> writes:
> diff -rq /mnt/hda3/ / 2>>/dev/null |egrep -v 'fifo|socket|special'
>
> The output seems to confirm my expectation, except for the following
> lines:
>
> Only in /mnt/hda3: backup-diffs.txt
> Only in /mnt/hda3: bin
> ...
>
> This seems to indicate that the / directory contains no files or
> subdirectories,
No, it indicates that /mnt/hda3 (a subdirectory of "/") contains a
bunch of stuff that /mnt/hda3//mnt/hda3 (a subdirectory of
"/mnt/hda3/") does not. Which is probably true for your host.