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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Le_Dr=E9au_Philippe?= <pledreau AT prosodie DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: problem with diff -I 'regexp'
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:00:42 +0200
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Hello :
My problem : I'd like to ignore the lines beginning with --
$ diff -I '^--' test1.txt test2.txt
1,3c1,3
< 1when
< --I want ?
< #ok nok
---
> 2when
> --I want
> #ok
5,6c5,6
< 2
< 3
---
> 4
> 5
8c8
< test 2
---
> test x

The lines are in the output, why ? I obtain the same thig with the following
similar commands :
$ diff -I '^#' test1.txt test2.txt
$ diff -I 'want' test1.txt test2.txt
Why the regular expression is ignore?

The input files :
test1.txt
1when
--I want ?
#ok nok
#end of comment
2
3
test 1
test 2

test2.txt
1when
--I want
#ok nok
#end of comment
2
3
test 1
test 2


A normal command produces :
$ diff test1.txt test2.txt
1,3c1,3
< 1when
< --I want ?
< #ok nok
---
> 2when
> --I want
> #ok
5,6c5,6
< 2
< 3
---
> 4
> 5
8c8
< test 2
---
> test x

An ignore option that runs (line 5 and 6 of the following disappear, that's
ok):
$ diff -I '^[[:digit:]]' test1.txt test2.txt
1,3c1,3
< 1when
< --I want ?
< #ok nok
---
> 2when
> --I want
> #ok
8c8
< test 2
---
> test x

Philippe Le Dréau



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