activity="compare data"
perl -pi -e 's/^\s*$//g' $TEMPDIR/pspp.list
diff -b $TEMPDIR/pspp.list - << foobar
-1.1 DATA LIST. Reading 1 record from the command file.
+1.1 DATA LIST. Reading 1 record from INLINE.
+--------+------+-------+------+
|Variable|Record|Columns|Format|
#========#======#=======#======#
5 6
7 8
9 0
-2.1 DATA LIST. Reading 1 record from the command file.
+2.1 DATA LIST. Reading 1 record from INLINE.
+--------+------+-------+------+
|Variable|Record|Columns|Format|
#========#======#=======#======#