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by GordonS 2752 days ago
> What’s the best way to compare these two 5GB files?

A much simpler way to do this is simply to hash the files, for example using sha256sum, which AFAIK ships with just about every Linux distro. Then just compare the hashes.

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Having the same content is not the same as being identical verbatim.