On 2019-08-18 at 20:27:41, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> For safety, it would probably be a good idea to check the exit status
> of the 'sed' invocation in the for-loop:
> 
>     for i in "$1" "$2"
>     do
>         sed -e ... "$i" >"$i.compare" || return 1
>     done &&
>     ...

I'll do that.

> (Note, also, that I dropped the whitespace after the '>' operator.)

Ah, good catch.
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