What are the error exit values for diff?
问题 On the diff man-page I've found these exit values: 0 No differences were found. 1 Differences were found. >1 An error occurred. Are there different exit values above 1 for different errors? 回答1: It depends on your diff command. Mine (GNU diffutils 3.0) says: An exit status of 0 means no differences were found, 1 means some differences were found, and 2 means trouble. Normally, differing binary files count as trouble, but this can be altered by using the -a or --text option, or the -q or -