Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:16:28 +0100 From: dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X? Message-ID: <200606101016.29195.freebsd01@dgmm.net> In-Reply-To: <20060610104044.2933d274@localhost> References: <20060609052138.9DE3216A556@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060609204146.27643B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <20060610104044.2933d274@localhost>
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On Saturday 10 June 2006 01:40, Norberto Meijome wrote: =A0 > 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 > > > =A0> I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories > > =A0> (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. rsync -rn dir1 dir2 r =3D recurse directories n =3D no action, just report the diffs =2D-=20 Dave
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