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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Michael Partridge <mcp292 <at> nau.edu>

Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 22:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Michael Partridge <mcp292 <at> nau.edu>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: diff Manual
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 15:04:28 -0700

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Nowhere does the diff man page mention the from-file, to-file syntax as it
does in the full documentation:

> In the simplest case, two file names from-file and to-file are given, and
> diff compares the contents of from-file and to-file.
>

Source:
https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/diffutils.html#Invoking-diff

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