> Oh, for that sort of thing you can use the "cmp" command, which is part
> of diffutils.
Not so!
cmp primes-so-far.lisp the-primes-below-100.txt
cmp: primes-so-far.lisp: Cannot allocate memory
Bob
On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/12/24 09:06, Robert Boyer w
Please ignore my last message.
I must have been having problems I do not understand.
> time cmp primes-so-far.lisp the-primes-below-100.txt
cmp: EOF on primes-so-far.lisp after byte 373882880, line 38039843
real 5m15.340s
user 0m0.705s
sys 0m0.765s
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 9:11 AM Rober
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 wrote:
> On 3/12/24 09:06, Robert Boyer wrote:
> > Here is a better version of diff, better only in the sens
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
