Differencing Directories

[Paul Sutton]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

>Is there a stock tool for reporting the differences in directories?  I
>don't really want to have to roll my own if I don't have to, and I know
>that people have had this problem before.  Thanks.
>  
>
I just tried this

diff /var/log /etc

and it tells me what is in either /var/log or /etc

Not qutie sure if /var/log is a good example,  this also works diff | du 
/var/log /etc      and gives I guess file sizes, I would guess doing | 
grep whatever would search for something within the search results.

Based on this, there is probably a combination of commands that will do 
this,  or perhaps a small shell script, that would do it.

Paul

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