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rolling diffs for storage of highly similar files?

At work we do a nightly dump of our mysql databases. From day to day, I would guestimate that close to 90-95% of the data is duplicate, increasing as time goes on. ( Heck at this point some are ...
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Output the common lines (similarities) of two text files (the opposite of diff)?

Diff is a great tool to display the changes between two files. But how to display the similarities of two text files (while ignoring the differences)? I.e. sample input: a: Foo Bar X Hello World 42 ...
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Diff the output of two `awk` commands

I'm trying to compute the difference between the output of two awk commands but my simple attempts at it seem to be failing. Here is what I'm trying: diff $(awk '{print $3}' f1.txt | sort -u) $(awk ...
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Comparing files and their properties

I get information of a certain set of files in my mail every day, which looks like this: 58623208 Sep 14 20:08 blbn_blfbe_drv 57904920 Sep 14 19:54 blbn_cycmn 55814208 Sep 14 06:02 clsa_Upd 38912000 ...
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Program to upgrade configuration files

When upgrading Ubuntu (and probably other *nixes), the upgrade process will show a diff of changed configuration files and ask whether I'd like to replace them, keep the old version, or manually merge ...
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Reduce redundant logfile

I often have longer redundant log files, redundant in the sense that blocks of text repeat with minor changes. The length of the files makes it difficult to spot the actual information. I had the idea ...
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Bash function to compare two binary files [closed]

I need a function to compare 2 binary files, here the requirements: 2 files, not 3 or 4 files can't be assumed to exist avoid running checksum (CRC/MD5/SHA/...) until one must if running multiple ...