Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:15:45 -0400 From: Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cksum entire dir?? Message-ID: <CALhcXPBz7RhS%2B4g4AJ%2BVDoFyozrzoAP0JEPEGD-T=ZOSS=4YaA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120912011813.GA2305@neutralgood.org> References: <20120911213804.GA9817@ethic.thought.org> <20120912011443.5df17cf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120912002408.GA10496@ethic.thought.org> <20120912011813.GA2305@neutralgood.org>
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:
> It's a real shame Unix doesn't have a really good tool for comparing
> two directory trees. You can use 'diff -r' (even on binaries), but that
> fails if you have devices, named pipes, or named sockets in the
> filesystem. And diff or cksum don't tell you if symlinks are different.
> Plus you may care about file ownership, and that's where the stat
> command comes in handy.
Solaris and a least a few versions of Linux have a "dircmp" command
that is in reality a wrapper for diff that handles special files. The
problem with it is that it tends to be slow (I had to validate
millions of files).
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