file check

[Michael Lush]

Compairing MD5 checksums would /prove/ they are different.  As for proving 
there the same, there is a (very)^128 tiny chance of a clash... its more 
likely you'd lose data to a massive to a HDD and backups failure

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Michael
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Christopher Jones wrote:
> What's the quickest/easiest way to check that two large (~5Gb) files are 
> identical?
>
> Chris Jones.
>
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