On Thursday 22 January 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:15 +1100, david wrote: > >> I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. > >> du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex > >> trees. > >> > >> My task is to figure out where and why they are different. Is there a > >> simple way to do this? A kind of diff for directories/files/filesizes. > > > > rsync using a dry run? > > > > Ken > > Nice idea! but unfortunately all the time stamps seem to have changed > somewhere in the copying process. Great idea for some situations though. > > The problem with kdiff3 and komparator is that they both demand vast > amounts of k-dependencies that I would rather not install (this is a > server). Not sure why they need esound-common and many other apparently > irrelevant packages, but i'm sure there must be a reason.
<forgive me :-) I'm playing the devils advocate> WHY > that I would rather not install (this is a server idealogically you don't want to waste a few $ worth of disk space by idealogically not giving a krap about the $100s that everyone who has read and replied to your query has cost? What have we all learned: don't be stupid use the tools that do the job A whole suit of other solutions rear their heads, eg knoppix, live CDs, MemSticks, but you get the idea James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
