Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Does anyone know how 'cmp' can signal success when its output is redirected > to /dev/null, even if the compared files are different? > > $ cmp M.sum actual7.sum; echo $? > M.sum actual7.sum differ: char 20, line 2 > 1 > $ cmp M.sum actual7.sum > /dev/null; echo $? > 0 > ... > Has anyone seen something like this? I vaguely recall this reported long time ago from one of the regulars on the list, but googling or gmane search came up empty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html