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Re: cmp or diff won't tell me what chars are different
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: cmp or diff won't tell me what chars are different |
Date: |
04 Sep 2003 11:14:21 -0700 |
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joebob <address@hidden> writes:
> how do I tell how many chars are different between 2 files or what
> percent different they are?
"percent different" is a bit hard to quantify, but "cmp -l" does the
first job, for bytes anyway.