On 7/8/23 13:47, Barry wrote:
On 7 Jul 2023, at 18:43, home user <[email protected]> wrote:
When I try to verify a back-up, I use "diff -r". The directory trees being compared contain about
870 files (mostly binary, like PNG, JPG, and so on), and take up about 707 megabytes. The trees being
compared are on the hard drive and on a USB-3 stick. When I run the "diff -r" command, it seems to
finish too quickly - it seems like less than a half of a second. I saw similar results a few weeks ago
comparing about 30 gigabyte trees on the hard drive vs. on a USB-3.1 stick; the results were practically
instantaneous. Is diff actually checking every bit (or byte), or is it using some "short cut"?
I recall that for a file is equal test cmp is the command to use not diff.
That was mentioned in an earlier message. cmp doesn't have a recursive
option and diff works just fine for binary files.
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