Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that I tried various combiniations and none worked: > > diff -X ti_dontdiff -pBbNaur -X dontdiff this-kernel/ that-kernel/ -I > '\$Id' -I '\$Header' -I '\$Date' -I '\$Source' -I '\$Auther'
Try double quotes? Here is diffing a file from two different branches of CVS: $ diff -Nur {prototype,exceptions}/src/clone.cc | grep "\$Id" - "$Id: clone.cc,v 1.27 2006/07/10 08:30:21 olegg Exp $"; + "$Id: clone.cc,v 1.25.2.1 2006/07/10 08:16:40 olegg Exp $"; $ diff -Nur -I"\$Id" {prototype,exceptions}/src/clone.cc | grep "\$Id" $ -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]