On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, > file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern > and are very large in size. > > Now is there any way to compare > > dir1/file1.txt and dir2/file1.txt > dir1/file2.txt and dir2/file2.txt > .... > dir1/file50.txt and dir2/file50.txt > > > Manually diffing the files 50 times is cumbersome. Something like > > diff dir1/file*.txt dir2/file*.txt
I think this should work: $ diff --to-file=dir2 dir1/file*.txt -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
