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From: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:37:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b79f23070910291137t3d85a879r5656a3c06b228a95@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e107b4ff0910291135l1a9da3dj6340da0b2cb6f24b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:35 AM, James <jtp@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
I've had good luck with dev-util/dirdiff before...

-James



> -j
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29 18:35 [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories James
2009-10-29 18:37 ` James Ausmus [this message]
2009-10-30  7:14 ` Florian Philipp
2009-10-30  9:17   ` Joerg Schilling

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