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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


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