Re: diff user messages to stderr enhancement ?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Heiko Voigt on 11/30/2007 8:35 AM:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> $ diff ... | grep -v ^O
>>   
> Thats of course working as well, but its just not feeling "clean". I
> quite like the philosophy that user information (errors, etc., which is
> the case here) go to stderr. Isn't that the general consent in POSIX
> environments? I don't see the drawback of writing to stderr. Should any
> tool be expecting that information?

Yes, they should be expecting it, because it is required by POSIX:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/diff.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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