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| author | Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-02-01 13:52:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-02-01 13:52:19 +0000 |
| commit | 92f367e5f2b51bd88cab5ad9e21237ed29e1b824 (patch) | |
| tree | 16fa3330a8146b9f02c7111e3b1466247518802a /gnu | |
| parent | cf3b2baf6d1c7dc10b3d07e53346451bd32ae1d1 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 | 5 |
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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 index 0164f232d25f..f04d90f93498 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/diff/diff.1 @@ -474,6 +474,11 @@ match any pattern contained in .TP .B \-y Use the side by side output format. +.SH RETURN VALUE +.I diff +returns 0 if the files are identical or 1 if the files differ. +If one or both of the files cannot be opened, +then the return value is set to 2. .SH ENVIRONMENT The environment variable .B DIFF_OPTIONS |