Re: GNU diff -x on win does exclude patterns with back slash (\) or slash (/)

[Bob Proulx]

Hello yzz,

You have sent your message to gnu-misc-discuss, a mailing list for
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Your message would be appropriate for either bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org
where 'diff' issues are discussed or, since you are using Cygwin, the
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Please repost your question to one of those mailing lists.  That will
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Thanks
Bob

yzz wrote:
> Using 2.7-cygwin-990830 on Win XP SP2
> having problems running a directory comparison with excluded paths if
> the exclude path involves using back slash
> for example if i run
> diff -u -q -r -x foo.c <src path> <dest path>
> (foo.c is missing from the sub-folder bar that is under dest)
> foo.c get excluded
> but if I run
> diff -u -q -r -x bar\diff.c  <src path> <dest path>
> foo.c does not get excluded
> 
> Thanks