Write a shell script which receives two file names as arguments .It should check whether the two file contents are same or not. If they are same then second file should be deleted.

Code for Shell script which receives two file names as arguments and checks whether the two file contents are same or not. If same then delete second file in Unix / Linux / Ubuntu

echo "Enter first file name "
read file1
echo "Enter second file name "
read file2

cmp $file1 $file2 > error

total=`wc -c error | cut -f 7 -d " "`
echo $total

if [ $total -eq 0 ]
then
        echo "Both file's contents are same"else
        echo "Both file's contents are not same"
fi