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Old 06-22-2004
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Hi!
you can use sdiff with the option -s to print only not identical lines.

ls -la /first_dir > 1.dir
ls -la /seconed_dir >2.dir
sdiff -s 1.dir 2.dir

I hope this help.
regards joerg