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Re: <crlf> vs <lf> and use of diff
"Pierre A. Humblet" wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote:
> >
... snip ...
> >
> > They don't work. The saved versions have <crlf> line endings, and
> > the newly created files have <lf> endings. I thought that diff
> > ignored these differences as long as the files were not binary (no
> > <nul>s). The -a option makes no difference. I don't want to
> > revise the saved files because that would foul their utility
> > elsewhere.
>
> diff --help
>
> --strip-trailing-cr Strip trailing carriage return on input.
That works. When I saw it before I thought it referred to MAC
line endings.
See my other reply on .com and piping anomalies.
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