On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote: > <thinking out loud> > I wonder if rsync could be modified to output its patches rather than > silently applying them to a target file. It seems to be pretty good at > comparing large files quickly... > </thinking>
More thinking out loud: since these are database dumps, they're order-independent. So, sort the files into a predictable lexical order, then a diff is a linear operation over tonight's file versus last night's. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Rereleasing dolphins into the wild since 1998. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
