Re: Komparator tool.. what gives
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> writes:
>>I was looking for a tool to compare directories. Something more
>>involved than diff which doesn't ouput changes in files with the same
>>names.
>
> You are using diff wrong then. First, install the "kompare" package.
> Then, do something like "diff -druN dir1 di2 | kompare -" to inspect the
> differences. "diff -druN dir1 dir2 > my.patch" to save the changes to a
> file. "( cd dir1 && patch -p1 ) < my.patch" to apply the changes.
Very wrong... not sure what I was doing but I see from your good
lesson this is much more like what I was after... and explains why
googling for linux tools for comparison of directories doesn't find
much (besides diff).
Nice choice of examples too... this will have me busy for a while.
Thanks.
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