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fail fast mechanism for GNU diff

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From: Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter722 <at> aol.de>
To: 16317 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16317: fail fast mechanism for GNU diff
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:26:04 +0100

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Hi together,
I'm new to this list and hope to be at the right place.

I'd like to know if there's a possibility within GNU diff (I checked
diffutils 3.2) to fail fast (i.e. return with and exit code != 0) after
the first difference has been found in the file or any file (in a
recursive diff). I know that I could listen to output on stdout, but
this wouldn't be within diff.

Kind regards,
Karl-P. Richter

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