#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; $|++; die "Usage: $0 file1 file2\n" unless @ARGV==2; my ($f1, $f2) = map { open my $fh, '<:raw', $_ or die "Can't open `$_': $!\n"; $fh } @ARGV; $/ = \0x100_000; while (my $s1=<$f1>) { defined +(my $s2=<$f2>) or last; printf "Block %04d: no differences\r", $. and next if $s1 eq $s2; my @l = map length, ($s1 ^ $s2) =~ /^(\0*)(.+?)(\0*)\z/; printf "\nBlock %04d: A=[0 x %d], B=[* x %d], C=[0 x %d]\n", $., @l; print "\tB=[@{[ unpack '(H2)*' => substr $_, $l[0], $l[1] ]}]\n" for $s1, $s2; } __END__