From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 29 7:12:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA06151A4 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:12:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13840 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:12:12 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA78653 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:12:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D6714FE8 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:12:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA29573; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:11:45 +1100 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:11:25 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Bill Fumerola , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing diff's default output format In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > That's hardly the point. The point here, which I won't defend very > vigorously, is that there are maybe 10 basic Unix utilities, that should > be default look pretty much the same across *all* Unix systems. > > There may be some POSIX collateral on this, if not SVID stuff- I'm too far From a POSIX.2 draft: P2> 4.17 diff - Compare two files P2> P2> P2> 4.17.1 Synopsis P2> P2> diff [ -c | -e | -C n ] [-br] file1 file2 P2> P2> P2> 4.17.2 Description P2> P2> The diff utility shall compare the contents of file1 and file2 and write P2> to standard output a list of changes necessary to convert file1 into P2> file2. This list should be minimal. No output shall be produced if the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ P2> files are identical. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message