On Saturday 10 June 2006 01:40, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:56:17 +1000 (EST) > > Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 137, Issue 55 > > > > Hi Beto, > > > > (offlist as it's just a silly answer, not one for X) > > Hey Ian, > thx, not a silly answer at all > > > > I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories > > > (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( > > textproc/meld ) > can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, > > but not showing > what files are different withoug having to open each > > file and do a diff. > > > > Well of course 'diff -r dir1 dir2 | less' does that well in an xterm :) > > yeah, but it's just way too verbose. something that allows very quick > determination of differences / missing files, transfer them from one tree > to another,etc. Specially for LARGE trees.
rsync -rn dir1 dir2 r = recurse directories n = no action, just report the diffs -- Dave _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
