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[ale] diff being boneheaded
- Subject: [ale] diff being boneheaded
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:50:47 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CANp3UNA2CFkiHA2rMb-30YHZqbRxFZk6TQ=XgA4V61Om8hyFPA@mail.gmail.com> (Sparr's message of "Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:01:08 -0400")
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Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> writes:
> `diff -w` will ignore whitespace entirely. this will solve problems with
> trailing spaces, spaces-vs-tabs, non printing spaces, etc.
Except I think using -w, diff it will also consider:
a bout
and
about
as the same, which might not be what you want.
-derek
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