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| author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-01-06 00:28:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-01-06 00:28:54 +0000 |
| commit | 8481d1fea65dc03ced81d8c82b53a30175f4b9f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 7199cd79269950a80382bd5057e022ec7f7f49d5 /usr.bin/diff | |
| parent | d08cfb0daf805388e75494a8a07535e574d694bb (diff) | |
clarify what -a does;
prod and ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/diff')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/diff/diff.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 b/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 index b14ca7d5519..a694f291049 100644 --- a/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 +++ b/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: diff.1,v 1.27 2004/12/09 18:56:10 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: diff.1,v 1.28 2005/01/06 00:28:53 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -186,7 +186,16 @@ Comparison options: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl a Treat all files as -.Tn ASCII . +.Tn ASCII +text. +Normally +.Nm +will simply print +.Dq Binary files ... differ +if files contain binary characters. +Use of this option forces +.Nm +to produce a diff. .It Fl b Causes trailing blanks (spaces and tabs) to be ignored, and other strings of blanks to compare equal. |