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Subject: | RE: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7? |
Date: | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:36:31 -0400 |
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-----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 2:49 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com; Kenneth Chiu Subject: RE: How to increase the memory available to diff in cygwin 1.7? Kenneth Chiu sent the following at Monday, October 26, 2009 2:29 PM > >Considering that I only want to know whether or not two files differ,=20 >this should not require any significant memory usage. (In other words,=20 >don't use mmap().) If you only want to know whether or not they are identical, use cmp. - Barry "Get the right tool for the right job." --------------------------- According to his original post, Kenneth was using $ diff -rq B B2 >diff.out The -q is the "just tell me if they're the same" option; given that it exists at all, it is a little odd that it doesn't do the equivalent of a cmp. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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