in reply to file comparison

can't you just use cmp from *nix systems ? or perhaps cmp

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Re^2: file comparison
by Karger78 (Beadle) on Jun 26, 2009 at 19:33 UTC
    what about using md5
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      yes, that works too, but as Perlbotics said, there is a chance to find different files with the same digest(hash).
      maybe you could use a bigger digest like SHA-1
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