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Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#15452: Comparing files whose name _do_ match
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>>>> Ah, but why should we bloat diff when find already gives you what you want:
>>>>
>>>> find . -name '*.txt' -exec diff {} other/{} \;
>>>>
>>>> will run diff on only files ending in *.txt, when comparing . against
>>>> other/.
>>>
>>> Ah yes, that's one possibility for doing what I want, but I'd
>>> definitely prefer having the "--include" option, because:
>>>
>>> 1. Simplicity: It would be a lot simpler than the find/diff
>>> combination. And in the probable case that the "old" directory to
>>> compare is not the current working directory, things get even more
>>> complex, because the files in the "new" directory could not be
>>> expressed in such a simple way ("whatever/{}").
>>>
>>> 2. Consistency: Why not having an "--include" option when we have an
>>> "--exclude" option?
>>
>> Another reason comes to my mind:
>>
>> 3. Flexibility: Having the possibility of combining "--include" and
>> "--exclude" would be quite convenient in some cases. It would be a
>> simple way of expressing the intersection of two sets of files.
>
> Another one:
>
> 4. Consistency (II): "grep" has exactly what I'm requesting for "diff":
>
> --include=FILE_PATTERN search only files that match FILE_PATTERN
> --exclude=FILE_PATTERN skip files and directories matching FILE_PATTERN
I'm looking forward for this change to be implemented. Is there some
hope for that to happen?.
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@HIDDEN> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@HIDDEN> wrote:
>>> Ah, but why should we bloat diff when find already gives you what you want:
>>>
>>> find . -name '*.txt' -exec diff {} other/{} \;
>>>
>>> will run diff on only files ending in *.txt, when comparing . against
>>> other/.
>>
>> Ah yes, that's one possibility for doing what I want, but I'd
>> definitely prefer having the "--include" option, because:
>>
>> 1. Simplicity: It would be a lot simpler than the find/diff
>> combination. And in the probable case that the "old" directory to
>> compare is not the current working directory, things get even more
>> complex, because the files in the "new" directory could not be
>> expressed in such a simple way ("whatever/{}").
>>
>> 2. Consistency: Why not having an "--include" option when we have an
>> "--exclude" option?
>
> Another reason comes to my mind:
>
> 3. Flexibility: Having the possibility of combining "--include" and
> "--exclude" would be quite convenient in some cases. It would be a
> simple way of expressing the intersection of two sets of files.
Another one:
4. Consistency (II): "grep" has exactly what I'm requesting for "diff":
--include=FILE_PATTERN search only files that match FILE_PATTERN
--exclude=FILE_PATTERN skip files and directories matching FILE_PATTERN
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@HIDDEN> wrote:
>> Ah, but why should we bloat diff when find already gives you what you want:
>>
>> find . -name '*.txt' -exec diff {} other/{} \;
>>
>> will run diff on only files ending in *.txt, when comparing . against
>> other/.
>
> Ah yes, that's one possibility for doing what I want, but I'd
> definitely prefer having the "--include" option, because:
>
> 1. Simplicity: It would be a lot simpler than the find/diff
> combination. And in the probable case that the "old" directory to
> compare is not the current working directory, things get even more
> complex, because the files in the "new" directory could not be
> expressed in such a simple way ("whatever/{}").
>
> 2. Consistency: Why not having an "--include" option when we have an
> "--exclude" option?
Another reason comes to my mind:
3. Flexibility: Having the possibility of combining "--include" and
"--exclude" would be quite convenient in some cases. It would be a
simple way of expressing the intersection of two sets of files.
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> Ah, but why should we bloat diff when find already gives you what you want:
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> find . -name '*.txt' -exec diff {} other/{} \;
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> will run diff on only files ending in *.txt, when comparing . against
> other/.
Ah yes, that's one possibility for doing what I want, but I'd
definitely prefer having the "--include" option, because:
1. Simplicity: It would be a lot simpler than the find/diff
combination. And in the probable case that the "old" directory to
compare is not the current working directory, things get even more
complex, because the files in the "new" directory could not be
expressed in such a simple way ("whatever/{}").
2. Consistency: Why not having an "--include" option when we have an
"--exclude" option?
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> Hello,
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> I'm badly missing an "--include" option in "diff", which would have
> the inverse effect of "--exclude", i.e., to consider only files whose
> names _do_ match a certain pattern.
>=20
> I've been searching the internet and also this mailing list, seeking a
> way of doing this, but I've failed so far, and I'm quite surprised
> that such a feature isn't implemented already.
Ah, but why should we bloat diff when find already gives you what you wan=
t:
find . -name '*.txt' -exec diff {} other/{} \;
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other/.
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