Hi Thank you for your reply.
So what you are saying is that: If -I is used, and a diff is found on a line, all lines after, and until another matching one is found, are treated as one diffed chunk, thus ignoring the -I flag? Could you please give me an example of how to use the tool. Im reposting my example bellow. I would like to get a diff report on row2 and nothing else File1 row1 same row2 diffX row3 diffY row4 same row5 diffZ File2 row1 same row2 diffXX row3 diffYY row4 same row5 diffZZ And then the following comand to compare the files but exclude lines 3 and 5 $ diff -I 'row3' -I 'row5' file1 file2 2,3c2,3 < row2 diffX < row3 diffY --- > row2 diffXX > row3 diffYY Regards Marek > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:01:33 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] Unexpected behaviour in diff tool? > > -I ignores only if all the lines in the hunk are matched. > I think that explains the behavior you observed.
