[9fans] comm but within files?

[9fans] comm but within files?

[a]

does a program similar to comm for finding similar sections of a
file exist that looks for similar sections of a single file (or
the conccatination of several)? something to aid in identifing
likely targets for librarization (what?).
ア

Re: [9fans] comm but within files?

[boyd, rounin]

this is not exactly what you want, but it might be usable basis:

    http://www.insultant.net/repo/vidi.html
    http://www.insultant.net/repo/plan9/vidi

you just need to invert the output.

Re: [9fans] comm but within files?

[Russ Cox]

brenda baker wrote a nice program called dup that
did exactly this.  the theory behind it is published
but the source code, sadly, is not.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bsb/research.html

russ

Re: [9fans] comm but within files?

[Charles Forsyth]

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there is a program called sim that was published on Usenet
many years ago that looks for similarities within files.
i'm fairly sure i've made a Plan 9 port available somewhere.

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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] comm but within files?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:25:02 -0400
Message-ID: <1126B519.7E343430@mail.gmail.com>

brenda baker wrote a nice program called dup that
did exactly this.  the theory behind it is published
but the source code, sadly, is not.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bsb/research.html

russ

Re: [9fans] comm but within files?

[fgergo]

google (sim forsyth plan9) reveals: 
http://www.caldo.demon.co.uk/plan9/soft/


> there is a program called sim that was published on Usenet
> many years ago that looks for similarities within files.
> i'm fairly sure i've made a Plan 9 port available somewhere.
> 


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