Summary:
I would like a perl script that converts the output of the Windows dir
command so that each line has the same format, including the directory
it is in, and its extension. The date and time should use a format that
can be sorted as a string, e.g. -mm-dd and a 24 hour clock
I think
How about the unix find command, with the -printf option? You can get
it through cygwin. Taking find's output (even without -printf) from two
directories and diffing it has gotten me through most of these sorts of
problems.
Also, diff -r might be helpful. (possibly with the --brief option as
I do have a port of Unix find on my current Windows machine.
But I do not have that on the machine I back up to (my wife's), so I
would need to install that, and its dependencies, which makes me
reluctant to take that approach.
I, like many people, have had problems with find, but I thought I
Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
Also, diff -r might be helpful. ...
I'd strongly second that recommendation. I often use diff on Windows to
verify file systems, such as burned CDs. (And prior to a diff port being
available, I had a home brew script written in Perl that compared the
checksum of files in
Dear Steve,
Also date and time are combined into three fields, but the third is
either time or year. This makes it harder to process. I would actually
prefer time in seconds since the start of the Unix eon.
IMHO, File::Find and stat() should solve your problems.
The following is a starting
