RE: comparing bulk files

In the end I did this: #!/bin/sh #!/bin/sh find sp6a | while read filename do basename=`basename "$filename"` othername=`find C/WINNT -iname $basename` if [ "$othername" != "" ] then diff "$filename" "$othername" if [ "$?" != "0" ] then ls -al "$filename" "$othername" fi fi done which showed me a few files that have a few possible 0xF0 -> 0x90 difference (comparing the hex dumps)... but that's a double bit transition vs the files from the service pack and I don't know if that's the way the files are supposed to be... James