Re: say "Binary files differ" or something

[jidanni]

What I'm saying is when the user does

$ diff /etc/motd /etc/debian_version
1,8c1...
$ diff /bin/true /bin/false
Files /bin/true and /bin/false differ

he is left scratching his head why the latter just poops out with the
statement.

Could it be a privacy permissions issue, so a simple answer is given
based on file size?
Load currently too high so we just give a simple answer?
Output would be too long for the screen, so we just give a simple answer?
Etc. Etc. he wonders.

In the past I recall the message was "Binary files differ".

Well at least that gave the user a clue to what was going on, and he
could look on the man page and find --text, even if you don't tell him
he could try -a/--text right there in the output message, which you
might consider doing too, perhaps.