From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 16:50:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA01980 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:50:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gromit.pinpt.com (gromit.pinpt.com [205.179.195.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA01927 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schluntz@dns.pinpt.com) Received: from [165.227.106.80] (schluntz.pinpt.com [165.227.106.80]) by gromit.pinpt.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA15719; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:49:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801080049.QAA15719@gromit.pinpt.com> Subject: Re: Help finding a couple of utilities. Date: Wed, 7 Jan 98 16:48:57 -0700 x-sender: schluntz@dns.pinpt.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v2, June 6, 1997 From: "Sean J. Schluntz" To: "Dave Marquardt" , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk *From the fingers of Dave Marquardt >"Sean J. Schluntz" writes: >> 1) Create a list of all of the files in a tree and then be able to make >> comparisons against that list later (To find files that have changed and >> by who. > >ls -lR Quite true that will get a list of the files in a tree with the preface of the directory and the the listing of that directory, unfortunately that does not do what I was looking for. I would need something that can compare changes in a tree, I have heard of such a thing but just can't track it down. Unless you happen to have a Perl script laying around that can correctly parse two of those output files and come up with what I'm looking for? -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@pinpt.com Systems Engineer (408) 997-6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation http://www.pinpt.com