Differencing Directories

Mon Jan 16 22:24:14 UTC 2006

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:13:09PM -0500, Yanni Chiu wrote:
>William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>>Is there a stock tool for reporting the differences in directories?
>
>"diff -r" does recursive diff (i.e. diff's any subdirecties).

Yes, but the output is decidedly unbeautiful.  I am not completely
satisfied with dirdiff, but it seems to be a better choice than some of
my options.  Tree is educational, and lends itself scriptable solutions,
but for a rough overview it seems to be okay.  There are a lot of
proprietary solutions out there for windoze I noticed, but because all
the pieces are in place on Linux to do this yourself it seems less in
demand.
-- 

yours,

William

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