dircmp(1)						      General Commands Manual							 dircmp(1)

NAME

       dircmp - directory comparison

SYNOPSIS

       n] dir1 dir2

DESCRIPTION

       examines  dir1  and  dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories.  Sorted listings of files that
       are unique to each directory are generated for all the options.	If no option is entered, a sorted list is output  indicating  whether  the
       filenames common to both directories have the same contents.

	      Compare the contents of files with the same name in
		      both  directories  and  output  a list telling what must be changed in the two files to bring them into agreement.  The list
		      format is described in diff(1).

	      Suppress messages about identical files.

	      Change the width of the output line to
		      n characters.  The default width is 72.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       LC_COLLATE determines the order in which the output is sorted.

       If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default.  If is not specified or is set	to
       the  empty  string,  a  default of ``C'' (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,
       behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to ``C'' (see environ(5)).

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

EXAMPLES

       Compare the two directories and and produce a list of changes that would make the directories identical:

WARNINGS

       This command is likely to be withdrawn from X/Open standards. Applications using this command might not be portable to other vendors'  sys-
       tems.  As an alternative is recommended.

SEE ALSO

       cmp(1), diff(1).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

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