* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [081014 16:08]:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Maybe we should pass -a to diff so that it displays the difference even
> > if it thinks the file is binary.
>
> Unfortunately not portable:
>
> $ /usr/bin/diff -a foo bar
> /usr/bin/diff: illegal option -- a
> usage: diff [ -C n ] [ -S name ] [ -bcefhilnrstw ] dir1 dir2
> diff [-C n ] [ -bcefhintw ] file1 file2
> diff [ -D string ] [ -biw ] file1 file2
I'll bet /usr/bin/make pukes on PostgreSQL make files there too ;-)
a.
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