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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: system command output different in guile than on command line
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 09:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200805074709.GA27513@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155809260.1393834.1596576862334@mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:34:22PM +0000, vapnik spaknik wrote:
> Hi,
>     I'm trying to write some code to get the size of a diff of two files.
> If I run the following pipeline in my zsh shell:
> 
> > diff -ua /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2 | wc -c
> 
> it prints 215
> However when I run the following in guile:
> 
> guile> (system "diff -ua /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2 | wc -c")

Have you actually tried to compare both results?

There are a couple of things which could make a difference. The
one which first comes to mind would be different environments
(PATH, language settings in LANG, LC_).

One thing you might want to try (to keep most of your experimental
setup) would be:

  diff -ua /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2 > /tmp/delta1

and then

  guile> (system "diff -ua /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2 > /tmp/delta2")

...and then diff the diffs.

Cheers
-- t

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1155809260.1393834.1596576862334.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-08-04 21:34 ` system command output different in guile than on command line vapnik spaknik
2020-08-05  7:47   ` tomas [this message]
2020-08-05 11:27   ` vapnik spaknik via General Guile related discussions
2020-08-05 12:24     ` tomas

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