Looking for command to compare two strings

[Paul Smith]

On 12/2/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > Is there some command to automatically check whether the two following
> > strings are equal?
> >
> > e64829764ecc434be937d92ab3a00f57
> > e64829764ecc434bg937d92ab3a00f57
>
> [b]ash can do it easily enough, eg save this as say isequal
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ "$1" = "$2" ] ; then echo "same" ; else echo "different" ; fi
>
>
> make sure you
>
> chmod +x isequal
>
> then you can go, eg
>
> ./isequal e64829764ecc434be937d92ab3a00f57 e64829764ecc434bg937d92ab3a00f57
>
> You can use the guts of the script from the commandline, even better
>
> if [ "`md5sum $1`" = "`md5sum $2`" ] ; then echo "same" ; else echo
> "different" ; fi

Thanks, Andy. Is not there a native Linux command to compare strings?

Paul