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Date:      Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:42:02 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: comparing executables 
Message-ID:  <86061.1017862922@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Apr 2002 11:35:45 -0800." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204031131150.21569-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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>How can I find out which binaries have changed?
>they are all different according to cksum so I assume
>that there is a timestamp or something in them.
>Is there a way to compare only the text segments?

You can do wonders with objdump(1) and diff.

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