Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) writes: > They have tried diff. As John says, GNU diff, as available on any Linux, provides a lot of powerful functions include recursion support (specified explicitly via the -r option). I'd encourage anyone using diff to use the "-u" option to provide "unidiff" format output which is much more human-readable and provides more context information used by patching software to behave more robustly in the face of applying patches to "slightly modified" files. Using diff to do "diff -ur dir1 dir2" and such like is something I do fairly frequently and I've never found any glaring omissions in its functionality.
> Has some functions but appareently not all that dircmp -d provides. What functionality do they think is missing from GNU diff? I wouldn't be surprised if education plus possibly some minor pre/post-processing with other utilities solved their problems. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie Mainframe Systems and Software Business, Europe IBM UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
