You mentioned grep, but did you try 'strings' ?
Does that even exist any more?
On 2017-02-01 01:29, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> I have some dynamically generated PDFs coming from a pool of web
> servers.
>
> Each server should be generating a PDF that looks exactly the same as
> from
> all the other servers.
>
> The PDF generation includes sticking in a few timestamps and possibly
> some
> hostnames or other dynamic content. The dynamic content eliminates the
> option of just using checksums to verify the output file is the same
> from
> all of the web servers.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can write a command line check. Needing to
> install a script would be far less than ideal in this situation.
> Funnily
> enough, needing to install a package would be less of an issue in this
> particular case, especially something in CentOS 6.
>
> Me being me, I did try to just grep out the lines with timestamps :).
> That
> didn't quite work :(. That probably indicates the files aren't as
> exactly
> the same as I hope.
>
> I didn't see a pdf2sanity tool. pdf2text won't really work as I need to
> verify the graphic content and hopefully the PDF wrapper.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
--
Regards,
Nathan
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