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Re: problem with diffutils
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: Eric Blake <ebb9 at email dot byu dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 20:07:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: problem with diffutils
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <3CE53263.C09B6109@email.byu.edu>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
Eric schrieb:
> Is anyone else experiencing this? Today I updated to the new
> diffutils-2.8.1-1, and now I can't perform diff on files:
> $ echo line 1 > a.txt
> $ echo line 2 >> a.txt
> $ echo line 2 >> b.txt
> $ echo line 3 >> b.txt
> $ cat a.txt b.txt
> line 1
> line 2
> line 2
> line 3
> $ diff a.txt b.txt
> diff: a.txt: Invalid argument
> $ diff -- a.txt b.txt
> diff: a.txt: Invalid argument
> As the same version of diff is working fine on my Linux box, I suspect
> there is a cygwin-related bug.
This is the old version (diff):
$ diff a.txt b.txt
1d0
< line 1
2a2
> line 3
This is the latest version (diffutils):
$ diff a.txt b.txt
1d0
< line 1
2a2
> line 3
Gerrit
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