Re: diff files matching a pattern
Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell and
are we doing your CS homework for you?
On Sunday 24 February 2008 02:21 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files.
> Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt,
> file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern
> and are very large in size.
>
> Now is there any way to compare
>
> dir1/file1.txt and dir2/file1.txt
> dir1/file2.txt and dir2/file2.txt
> ....
> dir1/file50.txt and dir2/file50.txt
>
>
> Manually diffing the files 50 times is cumbersome. Something like
>
> diff dir1/file*.txt dir2/file*.txt
>
> is what I am after. I do not want to do
>
> diff -r dir1 dir2
>
> since that compares the other 950 files as well besides the 50 files that I
> want. Any idea how to achieve this in the most generic fashion? Has anyone
> done this kind of thing before?
>
> thanks
> raju
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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