Re: diff files matching a pattern

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > for i in `seq 1 50`; do diff dir1/file$i.txt dir2/file$i.txt >
> > diff$i.txt ; done
>
> Ok, this works on the command line. But I am looking for something along the
> lines of
>
> bash_script_name dir1/pattern1 dir2/pattern2
>
>
> where dir1/pattern1, dir2/pattern2 are given as arguments to the script. I
> could not figure out how to do this inside a bash script. Any idea?

#call as script-name <pattern> dir1 dir2
pattern="$1"
dir1="$2"
dir2="$3"
for file in $dir1/$pattern; do
    diff $file dir2${file##${dir1}}
done

> raju


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