Bug 7454

Summary:	diff -N does not work
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Jiri Prchal <jiri.prchal>
Component:	Standard Compliance	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	busybox-cvs, jiri.prchal, rjayavrp2
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.22.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:
Attachments:	diff non exiting file with -N option

Description Jiri Prchal 2014-09-24 06:18:17 UTC

diff does not "Treat absent files as empty", insted of outputs error:

/ # diff -N /mnt/card/akpkg/sys.conf /var/aksum/sys.con
diff: can't stat '/var/aksum/sys.con': No such file or directory

Comment 1 Dmitrey Salnikov 2015-07-11 08:16:06 UTC

Created attachment 6101 [details]
diff non exiting file with -N option

Hi, I created patch. Maybe you can test it.

Comment 2 Denys Vlasenko 2017-05-05 16:49:42 UTC

Fixed in git, thanks