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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting adding 0 to a variable Post 302107151 by Perderabo on Wednesday 14th of February 2007 06:50:50 PM
Old 02-14-2007
Use this instead...
$ x=00000000009822837365732994374589558483928287384458
$ echo ${x##+(0)}
9822837365732994374589558483928287384458
$
 

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PUZZLE-DIFF(1)															    PUZZLE-DIFF(1)

NAME
puzzle-diff - Compare pictures with libpuzzle SYNOPSIS
[-b <contrast barrier for cropping>] [-c] [-C <max cropping ratio>] [-e] [-E <similarity threshold>] [-h] [-H <max height>] [-l <lambdas>] [-n <noise cutoff>] [-p <p ratio>] [-t] [-W <max width>] <file 1> <file 2> DESCRIPTION
puzzle-diff compares two pictures and outputs the normalized distance. Try puzzle-diff -h for more info. EXAMPLES
Output distance between two images: $ puzzle-diff pic-a-0.jpg pics-a-1.jpg 0.102286 Compare two images, exit with 10 if they look the same, exit with 20 if they don't (may be useful for scripts): $ puzzle-diff -e pic-a-0.jpg pics-a-1.jpg $ echo $? 10 Compute distance, without cropping and with computing the average intensity of the whole blocks: $ puzzle-diff -p 1.0 -c pic-a-0.jpg pic-a-1.jpg 0.0523151 AUTHORS
Frank DENIS libpuzzle at pureftpd dot org SEE ALSO
libpuzzle(3), puzzle_set(3) 2012-05-09 PUZZLE-DIFF(1)
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