On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:26:36 +1000 Jon Vahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Jon Vahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) uttered:
> I am making some backup CDs for some of my data CDs but would like to > check that all the files on one CD matches the same on another CD? > What's the best way of doing such a comparison? I could run md5 > against it but I would have to do it for each individual file - I am > guessing there's a better way of doing it. Thanks. "diff" might do it for you. It does handle directories if you specify the -r switch. That's a lotta data, though, diff could give you some horrendous amounts of output. I found this on google/linux: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/marsden.html I also found this: http://library.n0i.net/linux-unix/tutorials/ill-unixbsd/ch34/139-140.html#Heading1 but dircmp is not a command I can find on my MDK system, anyone know of a Mandrake equiv? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 09:09:10 up 10 days, 7:12, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
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