From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 11:42:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78051065672 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:42:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1988FC24 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2MBfu0U084897 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:41:56 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BA75784.6070409@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:41:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" References: <4BA75588.4090107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA75588.4090107@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to compare permissions between two dirs 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: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:42:00 -0000 On 22/03/2010 11:33:28, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > In switching to a new make file for a personal project I have run into > the problem of under the old makefile everything works (web site) and > under the new one it does not... when manually looking at the two dirs > they appear identical in layout, sizes and perms (dir and file level) > but I want to make sure... is there any way to compare two diff dirs and > see if they only differ in date stamps? (note since there are several > developers working on this project I need to compare even if the owners > are diff) Something like: rsync -nva old-dir/ new-dir/ Should tell you about any files where there is a difference either in contents or in meta-data between the two directories. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell you exactly what the difference is, so you'll have to use ls(1) etc. to examine the files it highlights in more detail. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW