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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing strings with sed Post 302447268 by cola on Sunday 22nd of August 2010 04:44:20 AM
Old 08-22-2010
Comparing strings with sed

Input:
Code:
The the
the the

Output:
Code:
not-same
same

What would be the sed command to do this?

Last edited by cola; 08-22-2010 at 07:45 AM..
 

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NAME
punycode_strerror - API function SYNOPSIS
#include <punycode.h> const char * punycode_strerror(Punycode_status rc); ARGUMENTS
Punycode_status rc an Punycode_status return code. DESCRIPTION
Convert a return code integer to a text string. This string can be used to output a diagnostic message to the user. PUNYCODE_SUCCESS Successful operation. This value is guaranteed to always be zero, the remaining ones are only guaranteed to hold non-zero values, for log- ical comparison purposes. PUNYCODE_BAD_INPUT Input is invalid. PUNYCODE_BIG_OUTPUT Output would exceed the space provided. PUNYCODE_OVERFLOW Input needs wider integers to process. RETURN VALUE
Returns a pointer to a statically allocated string containing a description of the error with the return code rc. REPORTING BUGS
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