On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:27:30AM +0000, vapnik spaknik via General Guile related discussions wrote:
[...] > OK... I was being stupid. We all are, most of us more often than not ;-) >Another strange thing is that if I use the pipeline procedure to do the same >thing, then I get an exit code of 1 >from the wc command, but it still returns >the same result: This is by design. Quote the "diff" man page: "Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble." That's probably so that you can do things in the shell like diff a b > /dev/null && echo "same" || echo "diff" Cheers -- t
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