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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:13:16 +0200
From:      Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd@optiksecurite.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to compare 2 images from command line
Message-ID:  <1220368396.3680.10.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>
In-Reply-To: <48BD5574.7010107@optiksecurite.com>
References:  <48BD5574.7010107@optiksecurite.com>

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/sbin/md5 image1.ext image2.ext ?

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:02 -0400, FreeBSD wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to determine if 2 jpeg images are identical. The images are 
> screenshots taken with scrot at different times. The point is to know if 
> the display is working correctly. I tried to use 'diff' but without 
> success, probably because of the metadata included in the image. I also 
> tried the 'compare' command from imagemagick, but it produce an image 
> containing the difference between the 2 images instead of telling me if 
> both images are identical.
> 
> So, my question is what are you using to determine if 2 images are 
> identical?
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 and I need to be able to script this comparaison 
> for an integration in Nagios.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Martin
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