On 12/2/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there some command to automatically check whether the two following > strings are equal? > > e64829764ecc434be937d92ab3a00f57 > e64829764ecc434bg937d92ab3a00f57 [b]ash can do it easily enough, eg save this as say isequal #!/bin/sh if [ "$1" = "$2" ] ; then echo "same" ; else echo "different" ; fi make sure you chmod +x isequal then you can go, eg ./isequal e64829764ecc434be937d92ab3a00f57 e64829764ecc434bg937d92ab3a00f57 You can use the guts of the script from the commandline, even better if [ "`md5sum $1`" = "`md5sum $2`" ] ; then echo "same" ; else echo "different" ; fi
Thanks, Andy. Is not there a native Linux command to compare strings? Paul
