Florian Philipp <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > James schrieb: > > All, > > > > I'm trying to find a good way to compare two complex directory > > structures to see what files differ. I've looked at a few different > > options: > > > > - rsync dry run (someone said this should work, but I'm having trouble > > getting good information out of this) > > - diff -rq (this works, but it's sloowwwwww) > > > > I've used cdircmp before but it tends to crash on complex directories > > (a directory with more than a few subdirs and with hidden dot files). > > > > Thoughts? Any specific / good utilities for doing this?
star -c -diff -v -C from-dir . to-dir Check diffopts= to learn how to tell star what to compare. It is fast, compares all file attributes and it does not go into loops if you encounter symlinks to directories. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily