The stuff of Kryton

An eclectic selection of technology with some cookery

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Comparing files

everyone to know if two files are the same?

Hash

use a check sum to confirm the file is the same:

Windows

  certutil -hashfile "<file path & name> MD5

MacOS

  MD5 file

Linux

  MD5 <file path & name>

Diff

so I get diffrent MD5 results whats going on?

Text files

Windows

Notepad++’s Compare or ComparePlus Plugins

Mac

TextMate: Bundles -> Diff

PDF

Windows

diff-pdf by vslavik on GitHub

Basic but does the job.