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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check if 2 files are identical byte-to-byte? Post 302232137 by dennis.jacob on Thursday 4th of September 2008 01:03:23 AM
Old 09-04-2008
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Originally Posted by krishmaths
In my server migration requirement, I need to compare if one file on old server is exactly the same as the corresponding file on the new server.

For diff and comm, the inputs need to be sorted. But I do not want to disturb the content of the file and need to find byte-to-byte match.

Please help.
Why can't you try doing a cksum on both files and compare?

Last edited by dennis.jacob; 09-04-2008 at 02:27 AM..
 

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CMP(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            CMP(1)

NAME
cmp - compare two files byte by byte SYNOPSIS
cmp [OPTION]... FILE1 [FILE2 [SKIP1 [SKIP2]]] DESCRIPTION
Compare two files byte by byte. The optional SKIP1 and SKIP2 specify the number of bytes to skip at the beginning of each file (zero by default). Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -b, --print-bytes print differing bytes -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP skip first SKIP bytes of both inputs -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2 skip first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2 -l, --verbose output byte numbers and differing byte values -n, --bytes=LIMIT compare at most LIMIT bytes -s, --quiet, --silent suppress all normal output --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit SKIP values may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. If a FILE is '-' or missing, read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble. AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
diff(1), diff3(1), sdiff(1) The full documentation for cmp is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cmp programs are properly installed at your site, the command info cmp should give you access to the complete manual. diffutils 3.6 May 2017 CMP(1)
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