Looking for command to compare two strings

[Cameron Simpson]

On 02Dec2006 14:31, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
| >if [ "`md5sum $1`" = "`md5sum $2`" ] ; then echo "same" ; else echo
| >"different" ; fi
| 
| Thanks, Andy. Is not there a native Linux command to compare strings?

But.. "test" and "[" _are_ native Linux commands!
What makes you think they're not?
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