The very crazy way

Just for the fun, but many ways for making it fail if one thinks about it. More over, don't forget the strings will be EXECUTED by the shell.

$ echo -e 'string\nstring1' | sed -e '1s/^/#define /' | cpp | sh 2>/dev/null && echo true
$ echo -e 'string\nstring' | sed -e '1s/^/#define /' | cpp | sh 2>/dev/null && echo true
true
$ echo -e 'string1\nstring' | sed -e '1s/^/#define /' | cpp | sh 2>/dev/null && echo true

The very crazy way

Just for the fun, but many ways for making it fail if one thinks about it. More over, don't forget the strings will be EXECUTED by the shell.

$ echo -e 'string\nstring1' | sed -e '1s/^/#define /' | cpp | sh 2>/dev/null && echo true
$ echo -e 'string\nstring' | sed -e '1s/^/#define /' | cpp | sh 2>/dev/null && echo true
true
$ echo -e 'string1\nstring' | sed -e '1s/^/#define /' | cpp | sh 2>/dev/null && echo true

A good counter-example is comparing "string" as first string and "rm -Rf /" as a second string; just check as root and see: it will say "true" though both strings obviously aren't the same.