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Re: [LUG] Recursive file diff

 

On Saturday 07 October 2006 16:23, Simon Williams wrote:
> I'm looking for something which will compare the contents of two
> directories and list all files which are different/don't exist in one.
> The obvious one for this was rsync with the dry-run option, but it gives
> no output for some reason.
>

diff -rq <dir1> <dir2>

-r makes it recursive, -b is for brief to make diff only output the names of 
files that are different or only exist in one of the directories.

Regards,
David.

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