Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-21 Thread david
Ken Foskey wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:15 +1100, david wrote: I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out where and why they are different. Is there a simple way

Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Ken Foskey wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:15 +1100, david wrote: I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out where and why they are

Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-21 Thread Martin Visser
Another way to compare two trees and to report on difference is to use rsync in --dry-run mode. Normally rsync is used to make a an archive copy from one directory to another (sometimes on different hosts) For example given two directory trees dt and rt, you could pretend to archive them, but

Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-21 Thread jam
On Thursday 22 January 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:15 +1100, david wrote: I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They  are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out

[SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-20 Thread david
I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out where and why they are different. Is there a simple way to do this? A kind of diff for directories/files/filesizes.

Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-20 Thread Bruce
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 11:15:07 david wrote: I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out where and why they are different. Is there a simple way to do this? A

Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-20 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
david wrote: I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out where and why they are different. Is there a simple way to do this? A kind of diff for

Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-20 Thread Owen Townend
2009/1/21 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com: david wrote: I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out where and why they are different. Is there a simple

Re: [SLUG] comparing directory trees

2009-01-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree. du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex trees. My task is to figure out where and why they are different. Is there a simple way to do this? A kind of diff for