Thank you so very much! I had never heard of 'cmp'!
I admit to being a very uninformed individual, and for that I apologize profoundly. Bob On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 3/12/24 09:06, Robert Boyer wrote: > > Here is a better version of diff, better only in the sense that it works > on > > all files. > > Oh, for that sort of thing you can use the "cmp" command, which is part > of diffutils. It doesn't need to read both files into RAM, so it is more > likely to work for your situation. >