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  1. February 4th, 2014 #1
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    comparing two files in different directories in terminal

    Hey,

    I'm writing a tcsh shell, but am fairly new to Linux. Is it possible to cmp two files in different directories? And if not, how would I go about doing this?

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    Re: comparing two files in different directories in terminal

    Code:
    diff file1 ../otherdir/file2
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    Re: comparing two files in different directories in terminal

    haha oh man, I should have been able to figure that out. Thanks, for the help!
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