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From: hogstedt@ae.chalmers.se (PER HOGSTEDT)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Comparing specific lines in two ASCII files?
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.082649.511@ae.chalmers.se>
Date: 28 Feb 91 07:26:49 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Applied Electronics. Chalmers Univ. of Technology.
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Can someone point me at a utility that:
	- Compares specific lines in two ASCII files (e.g. compare lines
	  5-10 in file A.txt to lines 30-35 in file B.txt) and
	- Returns the result of the comparison in an environment variable.

Thanksalot,
Per
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