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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:14:24
Message-Id: 4AEA923F.5010308@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories by James
1 James schrieb:
2 > All,
3 >
4 > I'm trying to find a good way to compare two complex directory
5 > structures to see what files differ. I've looked at a few different
6 > options:
7 >
8 > - rsync dry run (someone said this should work, but I'm having trouble
9 > getting good information out of this)
10 > - diff -rq (this works, but it's sloowwwwww)
11 >
12 > I've used cdircmp before but it tends to crash on complex directories
13 > (a directory with more than a few subdirs and with hidden dot files).
14 >
15 > Thoughts? Any specific / good utilities for doing this?
16 >
17 > -j
18 >
19
20 Meld, KDiff3?

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Re: [gentoo-user] comparing two complex directories Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)