Re: How to make the diff file?

"John Gabriele" <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:01:57 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/7/06, Konrad Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/7/06, John Gabriele <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That is to say, you can make your diff using either the plain "diff"
> > program, or else using the "cvs diff" command.
>
> So the syntax is something like:
>   diff -pu1 oldfile.rb newfile.rb
> Am I correct? When I do this, I get a message saying "extra operand
> `newfile.rb'".

Yes, looks correct. The command looks fine. Make sure you're not
putting a space anywhere in "-pu1".

---John