On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:26:41AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Bill Bennett"> > > > I use cdparanoia to rip an audio track. I store it as AudioA.wav. > > > > I use cdrecord to burn the track. I rip the burned track and store it as > > AudioB.wav. > > > > I'd like to compare the files to see what sort of job I've made. > > > > a) Is there a Linux programme to do this? > > Sure, run md5sum on the two files, like this: > > $ md5sum jdub* > 43418bbfc74efc6b94397e427cd3fa32 jdub-face.base64 > 5c926bcaeeb89add1c4edabffbaca22b jdub.png > > If the md5sums match, then they have exactly the same content.
To a very high degree of probability, but there is a chance they could be different. Other simple checks: ls -l # check the length (size) diff # will tell you if they differ diff -a | less # will show you where they differ (in binary) > > b) Would anyone care to speculate on what I'd find? > > I doubt they'd come out exactly the same, but that's just a guess. If you > end up doing it, please share the results! :-) I'd expect no difference, or small differences. cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
