Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 11:46:40 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Running Diff of Directories Message-ID: <20020609114333.N7785-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020609092149.01044510@mail.sage-one.net>
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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 > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Administrator > > SageOne Net > http://www.sage-one.net > jackstone@sage-one.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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