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 directories/files/filesizes.
I'm pretty sure the diff program will actually do this.
Have a look at the following options:
-a --text
Treat all files as text.
-q --brief
Output only whether files differ.
-r --recursive
Recursively compare any subdirectories found.
You may also want to try doing "ls -lR dirname > dirname.txt" on both
directories and then viewing the outputs in a graphical diff program.
HTH,
Erik
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