Re: GNU diff command, was: Re: Fun trick

On 1/17/25 7:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2025-01-13, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 1/9/2025 8:01 AM, hb0815 wrote:

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$ gdiff -ub lib.pas-orig lib.pas

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$ gdiff -ub lib.for-orig lib.for

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For those that do not speak diffish:
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 Then those people would benefit from learning it IMHO.
 It is far, far, superior to VMS DIFF, especially in the unified diff format
used in the above command. If the licence allows it, then it would be an
excellent addition to standard VMS, maybe invoked as a new qualifier on the
VMS DIFF command.

There are BSD implementations that have the usual Berkeley license:
https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.bin/diff
Don't know about the license but git is available and it should be
possible to get diffs outside a repository with "git diff --noindex".
That said, I tried it just now and couldn't get it to work.