From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 10 00:40:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304CE16A41A for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB3143D7C for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:40:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 12692 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2006 10:40:49 +1000 Received: from 124-168-8-56.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.168.8.56) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Jun 2006 10:40:49 +1000 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:40:44 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Ian Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060610104044.2933d274@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <20060609052138.9DE3216A556@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.3 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:40:51 -0000 On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:56:17 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith wrote: > Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 137, Issue 55 > > Hi Beto, > > (offlist as it's just a silly answer, not one for X) Hey Ian, thx, not a silly answer at all > > > I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories > > (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( textproc/meld ) > > can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing > > what files are different withoug having to open each file and do a diff. > > Well of course 'diff -r dir1 dir2 | less' does that well in an xterm :) > yeah, but it's just way too verbose. something that allows very quick determination of differences / missing files, transfer them from one tree to another,etc. Specially for LARGE trees. > But I guess you're after a more pointy clicky solution :) not because of point+click per se, but yes for faster overview of things. > > Cheers, Ian > > just checking for myself .. > [...] > % diff bittorrent/ bittorrent2/ > diff bittorrent/differingfile bittorrent2/differingfile > 1,2c1,3 > < this one in bittorrent dir yeah.. i tried this with 2 src trees with over 1.2 K files each... it was way too much to digest quickly :D thx :)