On 3/29/2012 11:25 AM, Fergus wrote:
Is there an easy way to compare two directories for content (names only of subdirectories and files, not their identical content). (1) "diff" compares the content of files: too strong a comparison; (2) Could "find" both directories and then compare output, but this will list the entire content under any non-matching subdirectories, when all I need is the fact of the non-match. (i.e. I need diff -rq d1 d2 | sed ' /^Files /d' OR diff -rq d1 d2 | grep '^Only' without the scrutiny of file content that diff provides.) Thank you! Fergus
not clear what are you looking for, just if the two trees are equal or also the list of the differences (missing files) ? cd dir1 ; find . -type f > /tmp/list1 cd dir2 ; find . -type f > /tmp/list2 then or cmp /tmp/list1 /tmp/list2 or diff -uN /tmp/list1 /tmp/list2 Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
