file check

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker ilmari at ilmari.org
Mon Jul 14 13:33:20 BST 2008


Christopher Jones <c.jones at ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> What's the quickest/easiest way to check that two large (~5Gb) files
> are identical?

cmp file1 file2

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