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Sure, but then you have to make sure that you always maintain the extra nulls. diff(1) doesn't seem relevant; it operates on text files, which normally don't c

by _kst_ 11y ago

Sure, but then you have to make sure that you always maintain the extra nulls. diff(1) doesn't seem relevant; it operates on text files, which normally don't contain any null characters.

jedbrown 11y ago
diff -q is often used in scripts to determine whether two files are identical.
- _kst_ 11y ago
  I would think that "cmp" or "cmp -s" would be better, particularly if the files might be binary.