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 different. Is there a >>> simple way to do this? A kind of diff for directories/files/filesizes. >> >> rsync using a dry run? > > Nice idea! but unfortunately all the time stamps seem to have changed > somewhere in the copying process. Great idea for some situations > though.
You can ask rsync to use checksums only, which should detect only changed content. > The problem with kdiff3 and komparator is that they both demand vast > amounts of k-dependencies that I would rather not install (this is a > server). komparator, at least, can work with any KIO path, so you should be able to compare (for example) sftp://u...@server//path/to/dir1 ... Most KDE applications, in fact, support remote files that way. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
