I have searched about 30 threads, a load of Google pages and cannot find what I am looking for. I have some of the parts but not the whole. I cannot seem to get the puzzle fit together.
I have three folders, two of which contain different versions of multiple files, dist/file1.php dist/file2.php... (4 Replies)
Hello there, I'm a total noob to shell scripting. :)
What I want to do is compare the contents of Folder A and Folder B, and copy any files in Folder A that do not exist in Folder B over to Folder B.
I have gotten so far as:
diff -rq folderA folderB
which returns the names of the files,... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to scripting and have been trying to compare two different directories, but with all the same file names in each directory for file changes. I have been doing it in baby steps and have been doing pretty good, but I have hit a few snags. Test 1 and Test 2 work great, but my... (4 Replies)
Hi experts,
I'mvery new to shell scripting and learning it now
currently i am having a problem which may look easy to u :)
i have two files
File 1:
Start :Thu Nov 19 10:33:09 2009
ABCDGFSDJ.txt
APDemoNew.ppt
APDemoOutline.doc
ARDemoNew.ppt
ARDemoOutline.doc
File 2:
Start... (10 Replies)
I have several directories and all those directories have .dat files in them. I want to copy all those .dat files to one directory say "collected_directory"
The problem is I don't want to overwrite files. So, if two file names match, I don't want the old file to be overwritten with a new one.
... (1 Reply)
Beginner/Intermediate shell; comfortable in the command line.
I have been looking for a solution to a backup problem. I need to compare Directory 1 to Directory 2 and copy all modified or new files/directories from Directory 1 to Directory 3. I need the directory and file structure to be... (4 Replies)
Hello everybody
Looking for help in comparing two files in Linux(files are big 800MB each).
Example:-
File1 has below data
$ cat file1
5,6,3
2.1.4
1,1,1
8,9,1
File2 has below data
$ cat file2
5,6,3
8,9,8
1,2,1
2,1,4 (1 Reply)
Hello everybody
Looking for help in comparing two files in Linux(files are big 800MB each).
Example:-
File1 has below data
$ cat file1
5,6,3
2.1.4
1,1,1
8,9,1
File2 has below data
$ cat file2
5,6,3
8,9,8
1,2,1
2,1,4 (8 Replies)
Dear all
I have a multiple directories, say for example org1, org2, org3 ..... org100 and each directory having a file namely dnaG.fasta. I need to copy all the dnaG.fasta file from each directory and paste in another directory fastconcatg. Therefore, my script has to copy dnaG.fasta file from... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dineshkumarsrk
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
rmgdiff
RMGDIFF(1x)RMGDIFF(1x)NAME
rmgdiff - use almost any graphical file difference browser to recursively view the differences between two directories.
SYNOPSIS
rmgdiff [-b] [-d] [-g gui] [-n] dir1 dir2
DESCRIPTION
rmgdiff is an awk script that works in conjunction with almost any graphical file difference browser. It is known to work with mgdiff,
tkdiff, and xdiff.
Unless I am mistaken, most of the GUI difference viewers (except for emacs) do not have built-in support for recursing down two directo-
ries, but diff does. Based on diff's output, rmgdiff decides when to invoke the graphical difference viewer.
In addition, rmgdiff also collates diff's output. As soon as a new difference is encountered in a text file, rmgdiff will print to stan-
dard output the name of the file that both directories have in common. It will then start the GUI and block until the user exits. As more
text files with differences are found, the GUI will be started up again.
In the interim, rmgdiff will keep track of differences in binary (non-text) files. It organizes the binary files as executables, shared
libraries, static libraries, object files, and other. Only after all the text files have been displayed will rmgdiff report the binary
differences.
It also keeps track of files and directories that diff reports as being only in one directory or another. rmgdiff organizes these entries
by directory. Thus, files in one directory will be reported in one block, and files that are in the other directory will be reported in a
different block.
In addition to printing the name of the files that are different, rmgdiff defaults to printing the relevant portion of the output from the
file command. This has the unfortunate side-effect of slowing things down; however, I find this information to be invaluable. If you're
just looking for a fast way to collate diff's output, try piping it into sort instead.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS -b Sets the basic reporting mode. In basic mode, rmgdiff reports only file names. It does not report the file types involved.
-c By default, files relating to CVS are ignored by rmgdiff. If you want to include CVS files, use this option.
-d Sets rmgdiff to print way too much debugging information.
-g gui Tells rmgdiff which gui you would like to use for viewing differences. By default, mgdiff is used. You can also set $RMGDIFF_GUI
in your environment, but it can be overridden with this option.
-n rmgdiff will not invoke the gui. This is useful, if you only want to view the collated output.
AUTHOR
Paul Serice (paul@serice.net)
RMGDIFF(1x)