Differencing Directories

[Paul Sutton]

Further to this http://www.ss64.com/bash/diff.html

there is a dircmp file, however this is not installed on my system, so 
perhaps this is not a linux bash command, as apt-get install dircmp 
won't install it,  so perhaps it's distro or unix version specific,

Paul


Paul Sutton wrote:

> 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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