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summer_cherry · #3 (**permalink**) 03-18-2009

hi,
hope can help you some.

<filelist.sh> to list all the files under given directory

Code:

cd $1
for i in *
do
	echo $i
done

below will generate three section, only in first dir, only second dir, in both dir

Code:

sh filelist.sh dir1 > dir1file
sh filelist.sh dir2 > dir2file
echo "Those in dir1 but not dir2:"`comm -23 dir1file dir2file`
echo "Those in dir2 but not dir1:"`comm -13 dir1file dir2file`
echo "Those in both dir1 and dir2:"`comm -12 dir1file dir2file`
rm dir1file dir2file