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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting CMP two files with slight difference and return code Post 302244742 by drl on Wednesday 8th of October 2008 02:01:06 PM
Old 10-08-2008
Hi, otheus.
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Originally Posted by otheus
It's not documented in the man page. Not even in the info pages. I've got the same version.
Interesting. Are you using Linux? I have worked on unix systems where the SA installed the GNU utilities, but did not install man pages. Sometimes the GNU utilities were in odd places, and the PATHs were adjusted.

Does the utility accept the the "-i" option? ... cheers, drl
 

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POLYGRAPH-CMP-LX(1)						   User Commands					       POLYGRAPH-CMP-LX(1)

NAME
polygraph-cmp-lx - log comparison tool SYNOPSIS
cmp-lx.pl [--precision=percent] [--scope=important|all] <f1.lx> <f2.lx> DESCRIPTION
Cmp-lx compares results from two tests and prints stats that differ significantly. With important scope some stats are ignored. The follow- ing events are not important: *.last *.min and *.max except for *.hist.min and *.hist.max *.mean if there is corresponding *.hist.mean rare events Histogram and errors are important. Rare events are events that happened in less than 0.1% of the cases where they could have occurred. Measurements related to such events are not important. Event rate is calculated using xact.started measurement as total count. List of events: basic offered hit miss cachable uncachable fill ims reload range head post put abort page ssl ftp 100_continue proxy_validations auth tunneled proxy_validation rep req OPTIONS
--precision=percent difference threshold in percent, default: 10 --scope=important|all which stats to compare, default: important COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2006 The Measurement Factory, Inc. SEE ALSO
polygraph(7) - general information and a list of programs http://www.web-polygraph.org/ - project web site polygraph-cmp-lx - Web Polygraph February 2010 POLYGRAPH-CMP-LX(1)
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