[PLUG] It just happened again

[Tony Rick]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> And sometimes diff lied. For example, it said
> two small text files were different, but when I opened them in Gedit and
> compared them line by line they were identical, at least as to content.
>

Diff  pays attention to whitespace (leading/trailing spaces, tab vs. spaces)
unless you tell it not to.  See 'man diff' for the -b, -w, -B command line
options.

- tony