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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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