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 Showing Alternate File Names
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    If you are comparing two files that have meaningless or uninformative
 names, you might want `diff' to show alternate names in the header of
 the context and unified output formats.  To do this, use the
 `--label=LABEL' option.  The first time you give this option, its
 argument replaces the name and date of the first file in the header;
 the second time, its argument replaces the name and date of the second
 file.  If you give this option more than twice, `diff' reports an
 error.  The `--label' option does not affect the file names in the `pr'
 header when the `-l' or `--paginate' option is used (
 Pagination).
 
    Here are the first two lines of the output from `diff -C 2
 --label=original --label=modified lao tzu':
 
      *** original
      --- modified
 

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