GNU bug report logs - #15459

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: leila karami <karami.leila1 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:57:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 15458

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: leila karami <karami.leila1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15459: [bug-diffutils] bug#15459:  bug#15459:
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:37:54 -0700

Here's what happens when I compare them.
(The "$ " is the prompt by my shell; it comes
before the command I typed; the other lines are
the output of "diff".)

$ diff old.rar new.rar
Binary files old.rar and new.rar differ
$ diff -a old.rar new.rar
[ lots of binary gibberish ]

This is the documented behavior; I don't see any bug there.
'diff' is designed to compare text files, and doesn't do
very well with binary files.

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