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Created November 14, 2013 23:04
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Diff a file with its (emacs style) backup
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diff~.sh
#!/bin/bash
F=$1
shift
diff $* $F $F~
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This is just a glorified alias but was handy today. target-filename goes before extra switches to diff, which is odd and therefor probably bad. Also, should beef this up to verify stuff exists before calling diff.

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