Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:48:45 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small handbook error Message-ID: <20000719214845.B75784@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007190228330.18954-100000@wysoft.tzo.com> <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> diff -c new-file old-file
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> or
>
> diff -c old-file new-file ?
SYNOPSIS
diff [options] from-file to-file
That will create a diff which takes you from "from-file" to "to-file",
so "from-file" is the original, "to-file" is your edited copy.
i.e.
$ cp foo.c foo.c.orig
$ vi foo.c
<hack, hack, hack>
$ diff -u foo.c.orig foo.c
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Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
FreeBSD Documentation Project /
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