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Date:      Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:25:26 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        Walt Pawley <walt@wump.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X?
Message-ID:  <20060610172526.6084b1e7@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <a05210217c0afe7c71cd2@[10.0.0.10]>
References:  <20060609052138.9DE3216A556@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060609204146.27643B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <20060610104044.2933d274@localhost> <a05210217c0afe7c71cd2@[10.0.0.10]>

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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:09:49 -0700
Walt Pawley <walt@wump.org> 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



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