Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 09:53:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running Diff of Directories Message-ID: <XFMail.20020609095317.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020609092149.01044510@mail.sage-one.net>
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On 09-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....??? diff dir1 dir2 | grep '^Only in ' -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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