Hi Monks, this is a program design question I suppose.

I have been tasked with writing a compare script to hilight any inconsitencies between files in production and development environments.

This script will be executed on a Windoze platform and needs to be able to compare files between source and target hosts for Unix and Windozes machines (obviously not between Unix and Windoze, just to clear that up before someone comments).

Anyway I have an idea on how i'm going to go about this but it seems a bit over complicated ( I always over complicate everything ) so i'm hoping that a monk out there will have far greater wisdom than I in this area. I'm prepared to be enlightened.

Please let me know if you'd like more info.

Many Thanks.

In reply to Generic compare script. by TeraMarv

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