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12-09-2006

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how to synchronize different dirs

I have 4 directory

Dir1
file1 file2 file3 file4
Dir2
file3 file5 file6 file8
Dir3
file1 file2 file6 file9 file10
Dir4
file3 file6 file12 file15

and all the 4 dirs are having couple of files.
Few of the files are common to other directory/ies and few of them are brand new.

I need a finaloutput as
dir1 having all the files from all other 3 directory but not having its original files same for other dirs. And i need to change the file name in dir1. Actually all the files are having a ext as .text so i need to remove the .text from all the files.

eg
dir1 file5 file6 file8 file9 file10 file12 file15
dir2 file1 file2 file4 file9 file10 file12 file15

I am doing like this

newdir1 - copying all the files from dir2 dir3 and dir4
then delete the files from newdir1 which are there in dir1
so this way newdir1 is my final result.
Doing the same for other directory

>mkdir newdir1
> cp dir2/* ./newdir1
> cp dir3/* ./newdir1
> cp dir4/* ./newdir1

ls dir1 | while read file; do
rm ./newdir1/${file}
done
cd newdir1

ls | while read file; do
mv ${file} `echo ${file} | sed 's/\.txt//'`
done

Is there any other best and fast way to do? Actually i need some way which can be much more efficient than this instead of using 2 while loops as i have more than 5000 files in each folder and most of them are common across each folder only 20 are new files.

can i do this through file manipulation means instead of working on actual file if i make a file with all the filename and then doing some commands on names instead of actual file and then finally copying the actual file

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diff3

diff3(1)						      General Commands Manual							  diff3(1)

NAME

       diff3 - 3-way differential file comparison

SYNOPSIS

       file1 file2 file3

DESCRIPTION

       compares three versions of a file, and prints disagreeing ranges of text flagged with these codes:

	      all three files differ
	      file1	is different
	      file2	is different
	      file3	is different

       The type of change required to convert a given range of a given file to some other is indicated in one of these ways:

	      Text is to be appended after line number
			     n1 in file f, where f = or

	      Text is to be changed in the range line
			     n1 through line n2.  If n1 = n2, the range can be abbreviated to n1.

       The  original  contents of the range follows immediately after a indication.  When the contents of two files are identical, the contents of
       the lower-numbered file is suppressed.

	      Produces a script for the
			editor that can be used to incorporate into file1 all changes between file2 and file3 (see ed(1)); i.e., the changes  that
			normally would be flagged and

	      Produces a script to incorporate only changes flagged

	      Produces a script to incorporate only changes flagged

	      Produces a script that will incorporate all
			changes  between  file2  and  file3,  but treat overlapping changes (that is, changes that would be flagged with in normal
			listing) differently. The overlapping lines in both files will be inserted by the edit script bracketed by and lines.

	      Produces a script that will incorporate only changes flagged
			, but treat these changes in the manner of option.

       The following command applies the resulting script to file1.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   International Code Set Support
       Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

WARNINGS

       Text lines that consist of a single period defeat

       Files longer than 64K bytes do not work.

FILES

SEE ALSO

       diff(1).

																	  diff3(1)