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Re: Diff and grep problems
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Adrian Marsh <marsh at lucent dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:21:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: Diff and grep problems
- References: <430D94E7.4080700@lucent.com>
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According to Adrian Marsh on 8/25/2005 3:52 AM:
> I've trying to compare two files using diff from a .bat file :
>
> diff -iX scripts/%2.ignorelist "%difffile1%" "%difffile2%"
>
...
>
> So I wanted to exclude the ntp line and I put it in the ignorelist.
This is not cygwin specific. Read up on 'info diff' - the -X option is a
file listing patterns of FILENAMES to ignore when diffing directories, not
LINES to ignore within file pairs being diffed. Try -I instead.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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