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Dealing with files with spaces in the name
Post 302360704 by jakethegreycat on Friday 9th of October 2009 08:18:31 PM
10-09-2009
Thank you so much. I tried quoting with single quotes, but the double quotes really helped 
---------- Post updated at 04:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:02 PM ----------
Now I'm having a secondary problem... if the file starts with a "-" cmp treats it as if it was altering the command but really its the subject.
so:
a="-file.txt"
b="file2.txt"
cmp "$a" "$b"
---------- Post updated at 04:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:02 PM ----------
Now I'm having a secondary problem... if the file starts with a "-" cmp treats it as if it was altering the command but really its the subject.
so:
a="-file.txt"
b="file2.txt"
cmp "$a" "$b"
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zdiff
ZDIFF(1) General Commands Manual ZDIFF(1) 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 file1 is specified, it is compared to the uncompressed contents of file1.gz. If two files are specified, their con- tents (uncompressed if necessary) are fed to cmp or diff. The input files are not modified. The exit status from cmp or diff is pre- served. 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 may refer to file names such as "-" instead of to the file names specified. ZDIFF(1)