Accordinng to the man mdiff page, just executing mdiff abitree wptree
should give me some kind of list of similarities and differences between the files abitree and wptree, much as diff abitree wptree does. But instead I get nothing. Why don't I just use diff, you ask? Because when I go into production, I'll have a lot more than two files to compare, the situation that mdiff was apparently designed for. I can get a word-by-word dofference instead of a line-by-line difference if I specify mdiff -W abitree wptree but that's not what I want, because words aren't unique enough for the files to synch properlym and the output is gibberish. I'm running a frequently updated wheezy system here. hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/mtxt/dev$ mdiff --version mdiff (GNU wdiff) 0.6.5 Copyright (C) 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Franc,ois Pinard <pin...@iro.umontreal.ca>. hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/mtxt/dev$ uname -a Linux notlookedfor 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Sat Aug 27 16:41:03 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/mtxt/dev$ -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jgm699$ahq$1...@dough.gmane.org
