Carl Lowenstein wrote:

On 9/21/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a way to get a reliable listing of the source files, do a byte
for byte comparison, and report only the ones that are different?

$ man diff
$ diff -r -q  dir1 dir2

Will recursively compare subdirectories, and report whether files differ.

Wow. I've been using diff to compare two files. I guess it just never occurred to me that it might be able to recursively compare the contents of all files in two directory structures.



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