Re: Taking diff of two directories recursively?

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

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?

Hmmm...  This isn't exactly what you want, but it might be helpful:

	ls -lR foo > foo.list
	ls -lR bar > bar.list
	diff -u foo.list bar.list | less
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