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Thanks @Gilles for the additional links on file descriptor.

jaypal singh
– jaypal singh

2011-12-12 01:31:18 +00:00
Commented Dec 12, 2011 at 1:31
@Gilles perhaps I misunderstood you, but I could not make the loop process the longest file entirely (which is always $fileA in my case), so I made that into a separate question, being: is there a way to write the loop so that diff doesn't notice any difference between input and output? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26780/… the closest i could get was diff only finding one line of difference.

ixtmixilix
– ixtmixilix

2011-12-14 11:36:46 +00:00
Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 11:36

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