Grep filters as appropriate in the middle, I suppose.
My main point being - make use of git style diff-ing.

- KB

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 at 11:44 AM, Paul Gilmartin 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:48:25 +0000, kekronbekron wrote:
>
> > Else, ls -alR on both dirs.
> >
> > Then, create a blank project in PyCharm/IntelliJ and navigate to the dir 
> > containing these 2 listings.
> >
> > Select both and then choose diff/compare.
> >
> > Believe me, git style diff-ing is super neat and convenient, compared to 
> > the standard diff we use on zOS.
>
> Should timestamp, permissions, owner, group be compared? I chose not to.
>
> The OP might feel the opposite.
>
> Must thee method deal with non-portable filenames? In the extreme case, a
>
> filename can mimic a line output by "ls -alR".
>
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> >
> > On Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 at 9:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:22:29 -0500, Bruce Hewson wrote:
> > >
> > > > We are looking for a way to compare 2 filesystem structures, starting 
> > > > at root '/'.
> > > >
> > > > Differences we want to identify:-
> > > >
> > > > 1.  directory
> > > > 2.  file
> > > > 3.  symlink
> > >
> > > from the file it references. You might isolate the symlinks with:
> > >
> > > find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \; |
> > >
> > > sed -E 's/( [^ ]){8}//' >TheLinks
> > >
> > > ... in each filesystem and compare the generated listings of links.
>
> -- gil
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