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New and improved 'diff'.

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Message #21 received at 69752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 69752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#69752: New and improved 'diff'.
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:11:02 -0500

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> Oh, for that sort of thing you can use the "cmp" command, which is part
> of diffutils.

Not so!

cmp  primes-so-far.lisp the-primes-below-10000000000.txt
cmp: primes-so-far.lisp: Cannot allocate memory

Bob


On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 3/12/24 09:06, Robert Boyer wrote:
> > Here is a better version of diff, better only in the sense that it works
> on
> > all files.
>
> Oh, for that sort of thing you can use the "cmp" command, which is part
> of diffutils. It doesn't need to read both files into RAM, so it is more
> likely to work for your situation.
>

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