09-08-2006
you are quite the life saver, thank you very much.
Also is there a quick command you can use for a an if statement to see if the files differ?
if [statement here].
I had a look at the cmp utility and the exit status was 0 is the files were identical and 1 if the files were diferent. but I couldn't get the exit status printed to screen.
Thanks in advance
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NAME
zcmp, zdiff - compare compressed files
SYNOPSIS
zcmp [ cmp_options ] file1 [ file2 ]
zdiff [ diff_options ] file1 [ file2 ]
DESCRIPTION
Zcmp and zdiff are used to invoke the cmp or the diff program on files compressed via gzip. All options specified are passed directly to
cmp or diff. If only one file is specified, then it is compared to a file with the same name without the .gz extension. If two files are
specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to cmp or diff. The exit status from cmp or diff is preserved.
When both files must be uncompressed before comparison, the second is uncompressed to /tmp. In all other cases, zdiff and zcmp use only a
pipe.
SEE ALSO
cmp(1), diff(1), zmore(1), zgrep(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1)
BUGS
Messages from the cmp or diff programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified.
ZDIFF(1)