On Sun, 2023-07-09 at 07:02 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 7/9/23 03:04, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-07-08 at 20:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 7/8/23 13:47, Barry wrote: > > > > I recall that for a file is equal test cmp is the command to > > > > use > > > > not diff. > > > > > > That was mentioned in an earlier message. cmp doesn't have a > > > recursive > > > option and diff works just fine for binary files. > > > > Since diff works in terms of lines, what if there are no newline > > bytes > > in the files? Could diff have an internal buffer overflow? > > That's only for text files and I'm very sure that it has proper > buffer > handling. For binary files, it's just a simple yes/no answer with a > message if they're different. > > $ diff x y > Binary files x and y differ > $ diff x x > $
I was going to say that this isn't documented, but in fact it is (in 'info diff'), just not in the man page. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
