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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare 2 folders... Post 302299048 by rikxik on Thursday 19th of March 2009 04:37:50 AM
Old 03-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by protocomm
Thanks for your answers, but i want work with variables and not directly with the file.

With rsync as comm if i give $var instead the directory directly, i have errors...
What are you talking about? You posted example folder1, folder2 so the answers were provided accordingly. What is stopping you from putting the commands in a script, say "compare.sh":

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
f1=$1
f2=$2
dircmp -s $f1 $f2 |grep -v "^ *$" |grep -v Page

Then you can simply pass the arguments to the script:

Code:
ksh compare.sh folder1 folder2

Or I'm completely missing something?
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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