[wgjordan]

> My first thought was to write a ruby script to parse and compare the two exports, but after spending a little time coding something up I had a program that was starting to get fairly complicated, didn't work correctly, and was too slow—my first cut took well over an hour. Then I thought: is this one of those situations where a simple series of shell commands can replace a complex purpose-built script?

Key takeaway: next time, start with the second thought first and save yourself well over an hour!