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Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]!

> Just to complete this topic ...

> This gets rid of all the fork-execs in the inner loop except
> for sleep.  Instead of comparing file contents, it uses
> the test builtin to compare time stamps.

I /never ever/ rely on timestamps, except for casual check of the file age.
If I want to know, if two files are equal, I always compare contents.
Always. Even on 4Gb+ files.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 11.06.2012, <17:57>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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