From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-09-03T19:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary files comparision

2008/9/3 ruud grosmann <r.grosmann@gmail.com>:
> something like:
>
> cksum1 = `cksum #{file1}`
> cksum1.sub!( /(\d+)\s.*/, '\1')
> cksum2 = `cksum #{file2}`
> cksum2.sub!( /(\d+)\s.*/, '\1')
>
> cksum1 == chsum2
>
> Or is this not what you're after?

In that case why not directly use cmp?  I thought the OP wanted a Ruby version.

For small files this could be as easy as

File.read(f1) == File.read(f2)

Marcin, what kind of comparison do you need?  Especially what output
do you expect?

Kind regards

robert

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