RE: Diff information

["Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector@telia.com>]

> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Editor of PoliSource

<SNIP>
> >man diff
>
> Thanks. I think I used that a long time ago, but I rarely use the command
> line so I forgot. Unfortunately, it doesn't work at my command
> line for some
> reason, but I found other sources for the manpages by searching Google. I
> also stumbled across information on the help command (diff --help), which
> does work at my command line.

General help in bash, for installed (cygwin/Linux/GNU) commands:

$ help <bash-internal command>
$ info <installed command>
$ man <installed command>

Replace <mumble-mumble> with anything that is suitable. Google for "beginner
+bash +prompt" or some such for more info.

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