On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:21:40, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
> I guess there is an obvious command for this, I just don't know it.
>
> How can I compare two directory structures if the content is the same
> *disregarding*
> actual file content, or comparing that only if the file names and
> sizes are the same?
>
> As I understand diff -r would do it but it would also compare files
> line by line.
I had the same problem, so I patched diff to do it.
I added 2 switches -Z: compare by siZe only,
-M: different Modification time is a difference.
For a full description with the patches see:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-diffut...@gnu.org/msg00023.html
> As these are images and movies, I don't want to compare them line by
> line or event byte by byte.
Seems very common these days.
Ehud.
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