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Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 10:12:24 -0500
To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: Running Diff of Directories
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At 11:46 AM 6.9.2002 -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote:
>On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to run an analysis of two large directories, on two different
>> computers and only want to know what file names do not exist in one versus
>> the other and want to ignore file size or dates. I have run a directory
>> listing on each one, "file1" and "file2".
>>
>> I assume this is a job for "diff", but don't see "ignore option" for dates
>> and file size, except perhaps a regex, which I don't grasp. How would I
>> determine only the filenames that exist in file1 but not in file2....???
>
>If you don't care about size, dates, permissions, and the like run a
>'ls -R' which won't show them. Then you can do a 'diff -u' to see what files
>are in one dir and not in the other.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
>			Fer
>
...of course! It's always the simple & obvious one doesn't see! Thanks
Fer....

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