Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 10:12:24 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Running Diff of Directories Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020609101224.01044510@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20020609114333.N7785-100000@localhost> References: <3.0.5.32.20020609092149.01044510@mail.sage-one.net>
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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.... 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
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