> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 17:35, Jason Rennie wrote: > > > > What I need to do is compare the two files to see if they match. However I > > cant use diff becasue a number of brain dead students added full stops to > > the ends of lines which breaks the sample output.
Use 'tr' to convert periods to whitespace, then tell diff to ignore whitespace. -- "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." -- George W. Bush, 14/5/01 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
