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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pass ls command output to diff Post 302960291 by RudiC on Friday 13th of November 2015 07:45:08 AM
Old 11-13-2015
Using terms like "urgent" or "quickly" and/or bumping up posts is not THAT well received in these fora as people are volunteers spending their free time trying to help people solve their problems.

You can help speed up things from your side by giving an excellent specification or description of the problem, respectively, including details of your system and using code tags as required by forum rules.

Assuming you are using a modern bourne type shell, you can use "command substitution" to supply a command's output to e.g. diff. To give a more taylored answer, more info is needed, like
- how many files are in each of those directories?
- check every files against each of the other files?
- all results to the same newfile?
- any dirs in that path to be excluded?
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

sccs-sccsdiff

sccs-sccsdiff(1)						   User Commands						  sccs-sccsdiff(1)

NAME

       sccs-sccsdiff, sccsdiff - compare two versions of an SCCS file

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ccs/bin/sccsdiff [-p] -rsid -rsid [diff-options] s.filename

DESCRIPTION

       sccsdiff compares two versions of an SCCS file and displays the differences between the two versions. Any number of SCCS files may be spec-
       ified. The options specified apply to all named s.files.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -p	       Pipe output for each file through pr(1).

       -rsid	       Specify a version corresponding to the indicated SCCS delta ID (SID) for comparison.  Versions are passed to diff(1) in the
		       order given.

       diff-options    Pass options to diff(1), including: -b, -c, -e, -f, -h, -u, -C number, -U number, and -D string.

FILES

       /tmp/get?????   temporary files

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsprot 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       diff(1), sccs(1), sccs-delta(1), sccs-get(1), sccs-help(1), sccs-prs(1), sccs-prt(1), what(1), sccsfile(4), attributes(5)

DIAGNOSTICS

       filename: No differences        If the two versions are the same.

       Use the SCCS help command for explanations of other messages. See sccs-help(1).

SunOS 5.10							    28 Sep 2001 						  sccs-sccsdiff(1)
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