Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, KDLinux wrote:
>
>> I am writing a simple shell script to compare two archives, in
>> zip/tar/tgz format. I untar the two arhives in 2 separate folders in
>
> why do you need to untar?
> If all you want to do is compare the archive file, then just run diff or
> cmp on the two files. If you want to compare their contents, then
> tar tf filename will give you that.
md5sum will give you an even better idea of whether the two files
(tarballs or whatever) are identical or not.
--srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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