Re: Taking diff of two directories recursively?

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

Sam Ockman <ockman@varesearch.com> writes:

> I need to take the diff of two directories recursively, but am not
> just interested in what files are different...I'm also interested in
> if the dates of the files are different, the uids, the gids, and the
> permissions.  Anyone know of a program to tell me all of this?

If you want to compare only the files attribute (and not their
contents) you can use something like:

        find dir -print | xargs ls -ld > list

to create a file for each of your directories and use a normal diff to
compare them [UNTESTED].

        Torsten

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