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I have sifted through many past posts but have not found a good solution.
I have a 2 files that hold a filename and its cksum value like this:

FILE1 contents:
45435347589 filename1

FILE1 is from the directory structure of one host and FILE2 is generated from a rsh: host2 cksum command.

I would like to find an efficient way to compare each line at a time. So if
line1:file1 is not equal to line1:file2 I can report a mismatch. To throw another challenge some of the filenames contain a '$'. Something that java does to define inner classes. So there are some that look like:

343243473 file$name.class

Grep and RSH does not like the '$'. So I execute a script on the second host, to generate the FILE2 and then copy it over to host1 to do the comparison. Is there a way to esacpe the dollar when rsh'ing? So, I guess my question is how to efficiently loop through both files to compare or alternatively how to make the rsh escape the '$' in the filename so I don't have to have 2 separate scripts on 2 different hosts.

Thanks for you input

you can look into 'man comm':
comm -23 file1 file2

try putting a string containing a $ sign in single quotes when rsh-ing.