Re: Resulting difference between 2 directories

2004-06-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:04 pm, Julian M. Mason wrote: Given that, though, half an hour with a {python, perl, php, shell, etc} {book, website} will probably produce a better result. So I thought. I'll start getting my thoughts together for the

Re: Resulting difference between 2 directories

2004-06-16 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 09:12 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gerard Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:04 pm, Julian M. Mason wrote: Given that, though, half an hour with a {python, perl, php, shell, etc} {book, website} will probably produce a better result. So

Resulting difference between 2 directories

2004-06-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
The scenario. I have 2 snapshots of a CVS repository (old new), and I would like to execute a script/command that goes through the directories, and produces another directory, that contains, the difference of the 2 directories where it contains all the newer files/directories. So basically, Im

Re: Resulting difference between 2 directories

2004-06-15 Thread Julian M. Mason
Tools like unison do something (sort of) like this; they synchronize directories. The way I use unison (keeping a dir, which is only edited from one place at a time, consistent across several machines), it could be pretty easily adapted to this task. Given that, though, half an hour with a

Re: Resulting difference between 2 directories

2004-06-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:04 pm, Julian M. Mason wrote: Given that, though, half an hour with a {python, perl, php, shell, etc} {book, website} will probably produce a better result. So I thought. I'll start getting my thoughts together for the code. Thanks