Denis Excoffier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Because diff -r is not useful for tree comparing in general, star supports > >> a > >> user tailorable -diff option. > >> > >> Did you check "star -diff -v diffopts=...."? > >> > I'm afraid not. In fact, i have applied a patch that introduces a -K > (--no-dereference) option in order not to traverse symlinks. I'm happy > with it.
With diff, you still cannot compare time stamps, permissions, owner/group, symlink targets, ..... Given the fact that star supports this since 20 years, I would asume that the option was known in the public. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
