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Prevent diff from checking for newline at end of file

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Mar 15, 202634760 views
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Problem

I have two big trees, which I want to compare. Some of the files in the tree differ just because one has newline at the end, and the other file lacks this newline. I want to ignore this fact. I have tried calling like this: And this is working. My problem is that it also ignores other differences (…

Error Output

diff --ignore-all-space -r <dir1> <dir2>

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Fix for: Prevent diff from checking for newline at end of file

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You basically need to compare two files, conditionally ignoring the trailing byte. There isn't a 'diff' option to do this -- but there are a number of ways it could be done (e.g, hex diff comes to mind as well.) To use 'diff', you basically have to …

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