Re: Bug in diff ?

[Paul Eggert]

Markus Blau <address@hidden> writes:

> maybe I'm not allowed to read this file , but the problem is, that
> diff exits instead of continue comparing the rest of the files.

How do you know that it didn't compare the rest of the files?  Perhaps
they were all the same.

It works for me in your situation:

$ mkdir a b
$ touch a/f b/f a/g  
$ echo foo >b/g
$ chmod 0 b/f
$ diff -r a b
diff: b/f: Permission denied
diff -r a/g b/g
0a1
> foo
$ diff --version
diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.4
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