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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Looking to find files that are similar. Post 302708491 by jeffs42885 on Monday 1st of October 2012 04:33:06 PM
Old 10-01-2012
Looking to find files that are similar.
Hello all,

I have a server that is running AIX, running a tool that converts various printstreams (AFP/Metadata) to PDF. This is done using a rexx script and an off the shelf utility.

Each report (there's around 125) uses a certain script file, it's basically a text file.

I am trying to find out if the scripts are similar, some of them might even be the same, and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on the best way to do this.

Here is a sample of what it would be like:

1 or multiple script files (.txt) might be in:
Code:
/app/transformation/project1/

Other files exist...etc..

Code:
/app/transformation/project2/

Does anyone have feedback on what the best way to compare?
 

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platform::shell

platform::shell(3tcl)					       Tcl Bundled Packages					     platform::shell(3tcl)

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NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
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DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture

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