[bug-diffutils] bug#72274: bug#72274: option to ignore leading white space

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2024-07-24 21:47:02 +0200, Eric Deplagne wrote:
>   diff -w might be your friend.
> 
>   $ diff -wus <(printf "ab cd\n") <(printf " ab  cd \n")
>   Les fichiers /dev/fd/63 et /dev/fd/62 sont identiques

But this one is wrong:

$ diff -wus <(printf "ab cd\n") <(printf " abcd \n")
Files /proc/self/fd/11 and /proc/self/fd/14 are identical

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