diff can use for binary files ?

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:06:10 +0000, Stroller wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be
> > sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become
> > damaged during transfer? I'm thinking of something like md5sum for
> > directories.
>
> Diff?
>
> diff -r /source /dest
> will return no output if the two copies are identical.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
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