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 >> way >> to do this? A kind of diff for directories/files/filesizes. > > I'm pretty sure the diff program will actually do this. > [snip diff options] > > 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 [snip footer]
For a different type of formatted output you could also try something like tree[0] $ tree -ah dir1 > dir1.out $ tree -ah dir2 > dir2.out $ diff -wy --left-column dir1.out dir2.out cheers, Owen. [0] `tree` is in its own package by the same name under Ubuntu, I imagine it is similar for other distros. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
