Re: Bug#377600: please support -R to reverse diff (fwd)

[Paul Jarc]

martin f krafft <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nevertheless, the bug report was filed because I think that the -R
> option would save the user typing. Compare:
>
>   cp file{,.orig} && diff -R file*
>
> with
>
>   cp file{,.orig} && diff file{.orig,}
>
> with
>
>   cp file{,.orig} && diff file* | interdiff - /dev/null

Also consider:

$ cat > "$HOME"/bin/diffr <<EOT
#!/bin/sh
diff "$@" | interdiff - /dev/null
EOT
$ chmod +x "$HOME"/bin/diffr


paul