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[bug-diffutils] bug#72274: bug#72274: option to ignore leading white spa
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Tim Chase |
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[bug-diffutils] bug#72274: bug#72274: option to ignore leading white space |
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Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:57:49 -0500 |
On 2024-07-24 22:21, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> $ diff -wus <(printf "ab cd\n") <(printf " abcd \n")
> Files /proc/self/fd/11 and /proc/self/fd/14 are identical
Doesn't even require the leading/trailing space:
$ echo abcd > nospace
$ echo ab cd > space
$ diff -wus nospace space
Files nospace and space are identical
FWIW, this happens with diff(1) on FreeBSD & OpenBSD too, so it's
not just a GNU diff(1) thing.
-tkc