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From: James <jtp@nc.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:35:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e107b4ff0910291135l1a9da3dj6340da0b2cb6f24b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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?

-j



             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 18:35 UTC|newest]

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

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