Showing posts with label cmp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cmp. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Cygwin comparing binary files

It turns out that cmp is da bomb. cmp -l lists the locations of the bytes that are different and the two values for two binary files. So simple. Here's a link where I learned this, lots of other neat ideas there too:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688504/binary-diff-tool-for-very-large-files