On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> diff -qr c:\one n:\two
>
> Doing that against the hash lists, or the directory tree directly?
Against the directory trees directly.
Doesn't work if you don't have access to both trees at the same time
on the same machine, of course.
> If the latter, I don't think it would catch some kinds of errors.
It should catch any difference in file content or existence.
It will *not* catch differences in metadata (datestamps, permissions, etc.).
All "diff" is doing here is reading each file and comparing them,
byte by byte. If all bytes match, no output. If a mismatch is found,
it reports "Files X and Y differ". If a file/directory exists in only
one tree, that will be reported, too.
One should prolly force binary mode to be sure. Here are the long
options if you prefer:
diff --binary --brief --recursive c:\one n:\two
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