From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 10 16:34:33 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 B061616A49E for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:34:33 +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 1138B441AE for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:25:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 22892 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2006 17:25:29 +1000 Received: from 210-84-38-170.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.38.170) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Jun 2006 17:25:29 +1000 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:25:26 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Walt Pawley Message-ID: <20060610172526.6084b1e7@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <20060609052138.9DE3216A556@hub.freebsd.org> <20060610104044.2933d274@localhost> 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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:34:33 -0000 On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:09:49 -0700 Walt Pawley wrote: > >> > 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. > > How about rsync -n (or --dry-run)? :) yes, i use that quite a bit ... was looking for some improvement , i guess. Maybe also because i've used this BeyondCompare tool for so many years in Win32 that i kind of miss it, snif snif ;) maybe it's time to dust off the dev tools ... :) thanks all, Beto