Package: wdiff
Version: 0.5-14
Severity: normal
When giving a file device on the command-line for wdiff results in
missing data in the output. This can be avoided by saving the file to
a regular file and providing the file to wdiff rather than a device.
Perhaps wdiff is reading the file twice?
I ran into this problem piping files out of version control and
comparing them with the working version of the file with wdiff. wdiff
doesn't take a '-' option for reading from standard input, so I used
/dev/stdin device file.
Here's a transcript that shows what happens.
$ cat testfile
I'm only going to changed one word.
$ cat testfile~
I'm only going to change one word.
$ cat testfile | wdiff /dev/stdin testfile~
I'm only going to[--] {+change+} one word.
$ cat testfile~ | wdiff testfile /dev/stdin
[-changed-]{++}$ clear # \Endline missing from output
$ wdiff testfile testfile~
I'm only going to [-changed-] {+change+} one word.
$ wdiff --version
GNU wdiff 0.5
Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$
Script done on Fri Apr 22 15:00:21 2005
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.2.20
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages wdiff depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
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