Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:40:44 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X? Message-ID: <20060610104044.2933d274@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060609204146.27643B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20060609052138.9DE3216A556@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060609204146.27643B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:56:17 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> 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 :)
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