Comments on: How To Compare Directories in Unix

By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:39:22 +0000

great tyvm!!!!!!!!!!

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By: Deepak R Kadam

Deepak R Kadam — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:26:22 +0000

awesome work…

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By: sunil

sunil — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:13:09 +0000

i want to difference of two directories and show files which are present in both.

out put shouldnot show the resulting similar directories

By: Chorroborro

Chorroborro — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:59:22 +0000

Is there a way to add the extension .bad to the files that are in one dir but no in the other and then have them listed ina log and then printed into paper with red ink?

By: Prashant Deshani

Prashant Deshani — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:25:42 +0000

Hi,

First of all Many Thanks for the nice explaination of comparison of 2 directories.

However, I had the following concerns when I tried to compare the 2 directories:

1. I wanted to neglect the "Carriage Return" changes, but it seems like "Diff" command does not come with that functionality.

2. The command "–brief" does not seem to work.

3. The command lists the file which are identical…but without any difference. How can we avoid that?

Following is the snapshot of the ouput:

diff -bitw -r /mbx/cok/compare1/cokmyep.6rq /mbx/cok/compare2/cokmyep.6rq
diff -bitw -r /mbx/cok/compare1/cokmyep_2.6rq /mbx/cok/compare2/cokmyep_2.6rq
1a2,7
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diff -bitw -r /mbx/cok/compare1/cokmyep_3.6rq /mbx/cok/compare2/cokmyep_3.6rq
Only in /mbx/cok/compare2: comparison.txt
Only in /mbx/cok/compare2: remove_M.sh

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:33:05 +0000

Is there some way to copy the files (that you figure from the diff command) are different in the two directories into a new directory?

By: How To Syncronize Directories with Rsync | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX

How To Syncronize Directories with Rsync | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:08:53 +0000

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By: jack

jack — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:28:59 +0000

hi arun,
i have got one problem due to failure of one hard drive as follows:
1:i had 3 drives having images data.i was downloading data from all 3 drives and one of 3 drives got failure so i lost all data in broken drive but 2 other drives data are safe(2 drives are safe drives).
2. i did contact with administrator and he restored the original data with for 6 days data.
3. Restored data contains data from broken drive and safe drive also.
4. my problem is to get only data that should be in broken drive but not in safe drives.
because safe drives data already got transferred.

please give me solution or any idea how to get only broken drive data from restored .
i was thinking to write shell script but i m new in this.
help will be higly appriciated.
thnx a ton