Hi
I'm trying to use the diff-tool and i've come across something which looks like an unexpected behaviour to me. Consider the following example File1 row1 same row2 diffX row3 diffY row4 same row5 diffZ File2 row1 same row2 diffXX row3 diffYY row4 same row5 diffZZ And then the following comand to compare the files but exclude lines 3 and 5 $ diff -I 'row3' -I 'row5' file1 file2 2,3c2,3 < row2 diffX < row3 diffY --- > row2 diffXX > row3 diffYY Analysis of the output report row1 - OK, no diff row2 - OK, there was a diff and its been reported row3 - Not OK, there is a diff here yes, but it should be excluded since the -I flag was set row4 - OK, no diff row5 - OK, there was a diff but it's been ignored by the -I flag My conclusion from this is that once a diff is found, the tool ignores all characters until a new row match is found, thus ignoring the -I flag? To me this looks like unexpected behaviour. What do you guys think? Regards Marek
