[sbopkg-discuss] Re: Feature request - show diffs

[Mauro Giachero]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Phillip Warner
<phillip.c.warner at gmail.com>wrote:

> [...]
> Did y'all mean that you don't want the Local/Original/Diff Dialog to
> show up if the files are the same?


Exactly. Sorry if I used a bad wording.


> If that is the case, then instead
> of using a tmp file why not have a statement similar to this
>
> if [ -n "$(diff -q file1 file2 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
>  # do_dialog_code
> fi
>
> This would keep y'all from having to manage even more tmp files.


But this would to the diff twice...
I really think it's a matter of taste here. Frankly, I'm not worried about
temp files whose lifespan doesn't exceed that of a single function -- after
all, it's rather easy to manage them correctly.

-- 
Mauro Giachero

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