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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:54:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <dmiller@search.sparks.net>
To: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>
Cc: Len Conrad <lconrad@go2france.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: file compare
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On Thu, 18 May 2000, William Melanson wrote:

> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> % 
> % What's the command to compare 2 files?
> 
> DIFF(1)                     GNU Tools                     DIFF(1)
> 
> 
> NAME
>         diff - find differences between two files
> 

Great for text files.  Check out cmp and cksum if you're just checking to
see if they're the same, and/or want to compare things over time, like
whether a file has been hacked.

--- David



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