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Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: |
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> James schrieb: |
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> > All, |
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> > I'm trying to find a good way to compare two complex directory |
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> > structures to see what files differ. I've looked at a few different |
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> > options: |
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> > - rsync dry run (someone said this should work, but I'm having trouble |
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> > getting good information out of this) |
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> > - diff -rq (this works, but it's sloowwwwww) |
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> > I've used cdircmp before but it tends to crash on complex directories |
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> > (a directory with more than a few subdirs and with hidden dot files). |
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> > Thoughts? Any specific / good utilities for doing this? |
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star -c -diff -v -C from-dir . to-dir |
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Check diffopts= to learn how to tell star what to compare. |
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It is fast, compares all file attributes and it does not go into loops if you |
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encounter symlinks to directories. |
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Jörg |
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