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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users File Comparison utility Post 302580636 by methyl on Friday 9th of December 2011 06:08:43 AM
Old 12-09-2011
The choice of compare utility or compare program will depend on many factors:

1) Whether these are unix format ascii text files?
2) Whether both files are already in sorted order?
3) Whether you just want to know whether they are different?
4) Whether one file is considered to be the "master" and you want to know the differences relative to the "master" file?
5) Whether there is always a file of the same name (but in a different directory) to compare with?
6) In summary, what's your input and output requirement?
 

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pc-compare

PC-COMPARE(1)							  Probcons Manual						     PC-COMPARE(1)

NAME

       pc-compare - Program for scoring alignments according to a reference alignment with respect to sum-of-pairs and column scores.

SYNOPSIS

       pc-compare [TEST_ALIGNMENT] [REFERENCE_ALIGNMENT] [BALIBASE_ANNOT_FILE] [-col] [-core] [-caps] [-annot FILENAME]

NOTE

       pc-compare is named compare in the original sources, but has been remamed to avoid collision with other program names.

SEE ALSO

       pc-makegnufile(1), pc-project(1),from the probcons-extra package, and probcons(1) and probcons-RNA(1) from the probcons package.

REFERENCE

       Please cite Do, C.B., Mahabhashyam, M.S.P., Brudno, M., and Batzoglou, S. 2005. PROBCONS: Probabilistic Consistency-based Multiple Sequence
       Alignment. Genome Research 15: 330-340.

AUTHORS

       Chuong Do <chuongdo@cs.stanford.edu>
	   Wrote probcons in collaboration with Michael Brudno in the research group of Serafim Batzoglou, Department of Computer Science,
	   Stanford University.

       Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>
	   Wrote this manpage in DocBook XML for the Debian distribution.

COPYRIGHT

       This program and its manpage are in the public domain.

pc-compare 1.12 						    2007-04-04							     PC-COMPARE(1)
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