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Re: diff -b does not actually work with newlines


From: Dan Hipschman
Subject: Re: diff -b does not actually work with newlines
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:10:38 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:21:45PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Could you explain how you figure that diff -b is working as specified?

$ diff --help | head -n 2
Usage: /usr/bin/diff [OPTION]... FILES
Compare files line by line.

Also, in the man page:

        diff - compare files line by line

That's the core functionality of diff, to compare lines.





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