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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | [bug-diffutils] bug#17075: bug#17075: diff - - exits immediately |
Date: | Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:06:53 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 |
Karl Berry wrote:
I think it would be better to say*something* about the fact that diff does not always read its input, in the event that it can determine the result via other methods.
Thanks, that sounds good; I installed the attached. > This is so unlike virtually every other programHmm, well, in diff's defense, lots of commonly-used programs avoid reading some or all their input in some cases, including 'grep', 'head', 'tail', 'sed', 'awk', 'dd', 'more', and 'od'. It's not just 'diff' and 'cmp'.
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