Re: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:

> James schrieb:
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm trying to find a good way to compare two complex directory
> > structures to see what files differ. I've looked at a few different
> > options:
> > 
> > - rsync dry run (someone said this should work, but I'm having trouble
> > getting good information out of this)
> > - diff -rq (this works, but it's sloowwwwww)
> > 
> > I've used cdircmp before but it tends to crash on complex directories
> > (a directory with more than a few subdirs and with hidden dot files).
> > 
> > Thoughts? Any specific / good utilities for doing this?

	star -c -diff -v -C from-dir . to-dir

Check diffopts= to learn how to tell star what to compare.

It is fast, compares all file attributes and it does not go into loops if you 
encounter symlinks to directories.

Jörg

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