Perhaps the DOS FC (file compare) command will suffice for your application:
Compares two files or sets of files and displays the differences
between them
FC [/A] [/C] [/L] [/LBn] [/N] [/T] [/U] [/W] [/] [drive1:]
[path1]filename1 [drive2:][path2]filename2
FC /B [drive1:][path1]filename1 [
No, I am using Win NT.
Regards,
Mark
Surrey,UK
> Does your system have the 'cmp' program on it? IIRC this is a standard or
> fairly standard Unix utility which does exactly what you want and you could
> just call it from Perl...
>Regards
>
>Mark Bedish
>Surrey,UK
>
>
>In a message dated Tue
At 09:59 AM 8/7/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Randal,
>
>Thanks for the file compare tip, it is incredibly fast! However it doesnt
>tell me where the difference is. Can I get it to print out the first block
>of data that is different?
Does your system have the 'cmp' program on it? IIRC t
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Compare large files memory error
> Hello Mbedish,
>
> Tuesday, August 07, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mac> Is there a better way to compare large files than thi
Hello Mbedish,
Tuesday, August 07, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mac> Is there a better way to compare large files than this snippet,
Mac> which runs out of memory if files > 30mb.
Mac> It is also slow, about the same speed as comparing in a text editor!
Mac> Thank you.
Is there a better way to compare large files than this snippet, which runs out of
memory if files > 30mb.
It is also slow, about the same speed as comparing in a text editor!
Thank you.
__SNIP__
@file1 = ();
@file2 = ();
$are_equal = compare_arrays(\@file1, \@file2);
if ($are_equal) {
pr
