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 two similarly structured file systems.)
As suggested you'll want to use --brief (or -q), so the command line would be something like: diff -r --brief --binary dir1 dir2 You can find a copy of diff ported for Windows in "Unxutils," which is a collection of natively (no Cygwin libraries needed) ported GNU utilities. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ More importantly this will give you a more meaningful comparison than simply looking at directory listings. Steve Tolkin wrote: > I do have a port of Unix find on my current Windows machine. If you're in the midst of file recovery, I wouldn't recommend installing one, either. A better solution would be to share the machines drive over the network, and run the comparison on the machine where you have the secondary copy of the files. It'll be slow, but it should be the least intrusive approach. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/e/fps/3452158/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
