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Old 11-06-2008
cbo0485 cbo0485 is offline
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Script:

Code:
diff archive.tar backup.tar > tmp
if [ -s tmp ]; then
/tmp/abcQATest/abcMoveTest.sh archive.tar /tmp/archive.tar
echo "Files different, transferring files"
else
echo "Files the same, exiting";
fi
Results:

Code:
/tmp/abcQATest>./autoMoveScript.sh
Binary files archive.tar and backup.tar differ
Files the same, exiting
/tmp/abcQATest>
The binary files do differ, but then for some reason it always goes to the second part of the if statement.
Last edited by cbo0485; 11-06-2008 at 05:17 PM..