Ian Thurlbeck wrote:
Dear All
please confirm that what I'm seeing here is a bug before I bugzilla it.
Create 2 files, f1, f2 with contents "abc" and "abc " (without quotes),
i.e. the same line with a space on the end.
Diff ignoring whitespace:
diff -b f1 f2
should produce no diff output, but does on F8. Works fine on FC6.
Ha, that's amusing, I noticed the same thing yesterday but I thought it
was me being silly and ignored it thinking how could one of the most
heavily used utilities be this broken and not have any reported bugs?
The options -w and -b report differences where none exist.
This was confirmed by looking at the two files in a hex editor just to
make sure a non-printing character wasn't the culprit, but the areas
flagged as different were byte identical and turning off -w or -b
resulted in no differences, completely counterintuitive.
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John Dennis <jdennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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