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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: vapnik spaknik <vapniks@yahoo.com>
Cc: guile users mailing list <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: system command output different in guile than on command line
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 14:24:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200805122449.GA7475@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1535616889.169339.1596626850371@mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:27:30AM +0000, vapnik spaknik via General Guile related discussions wrote:

[...]

> OK... I was being stupid.

We all are, most of us more often than not ;-)

>Another strange thing is that if I use the pipeline procedure to do the same thing, then I get an exit code of 1 >from the wc command, but it still returns the same result:

This is by design. Quote the "diff" man page:

  "Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different,
   2 if trouble."

That's probably so that you can do things in the shell like

  diff a b > /dev/null && echo "same" || echo "diff"

Cheers
-- t

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05 12:24 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
2020-08-05 11:27   ` vapnik spaknik via General Guile related discussions
2020-08-05 12:24     ` tomas [this message]

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