Recursively diff a pair of files, to allow for the same lines to be in different orders without being marked as different

recursive_diff

#! /bin/bash

recursive_diff() {
  diff $1 $2 > tmptmptmp.diff
  export diffsize=`ls -l tmptmptmp.diff | awk '{ print $5 }'`
  while [ ! "$diffsize" == "$newdiffsize" ]; do
    export diffsize=`ls -l tmptmptmp.diff | awk '{ print $5 }'`
    cat tmptmptmp.diff | grep "^<" | cut -c 3- > tmptmptmp1.phil
    cat tmptmptmp.diff | grep "^>" | cut -c 3- > tmptmptmp2.phil
    diff tmptmptmp1.phil tmptmptmp2.phil > tmptmptmp.diff
    export newdiffsize=`ls -l tmptmptmp.diff | awk '{ print $5 }'`
  done
  cat tmptmptmp.diff
  rm tmptmptmp1.phil tmptmptmp2.phil tmptmptmp.diff
}