<crlf> vs <lf> and use of diff

[Pierre A. Humblet]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote:
> I have some makefiles used with DJGPP which perform regression and
> portability tests on my software.  They check things by doing a
> run and then executing "diff -q" between the captured run and a
> saved version.
>
> 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.

Pierre

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