Experimental Physics and
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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:30:26 -0600

Hi Pam,

On Thursday 10 December 2009 13:53:28 Pam Gurd wrote:
> A very long time ago, Rozelle Wright wrote a perl utility that sorted
> EPICS db files and compared them.  It was called something like
> aptdbcompare.  I used to find it useful from time to time - does anybody
> have that, or their own version of that?

I don't have a copy of that tool, but you should be able to compare two .db 
files by running both through the dbVerbose extension and using the regular 
Unix diff tool (or more modern GUI equivalents) on the expanded results.  
Using dbVerbose deletes comments and puts the records and fields in the same 
order so that a direct text comparison brings out just the changes.

HTH,

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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