Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys,

I wish to compare two ebcdic files.

diff utility manual says it only compares two text files line by line.. I doubt this will be good for ebcdic files.

cmp utility does binary comparision but I do not find any thing in manual referring if it does support ebcdic file format.

let me know if anyone has better n direct idea how to go about it?

Thanks
Rishi

Use dd....

from man dd

Code:

conv=value[,value...]
           Where values are comma-separated symbols from the fol-
           lowing list:
   
           ascii  convert EBCDICB to ASCII

So something like
dd if=/some/path/input.ebcdicb of=/some/path/output.ascii conv=ascii

Haven't tested it but it should work....

Apply this conversion to both files then use diff/cmp/whatever...

Cheers
ZB

for example(GNU bash, version 2.05b.0):

Code:

diff <(dd conv=ascii if=file1 2>/dev/null) <(dd conv=ascii if=file2 2>/dev/null)