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# 1  
Old 11-22-2010
Differences between 2 directories
Hi,

I am trying to write a script under ksh to list all the differences between two directories.

For example:
Code:
 
[root@test-centos01 home]# ls
test1  test2

I need to compare all the files under between test1 & test2. When I do diff, it only compares the diectoires but it doesn't check inside. I did do with -r.

Code:
[root@test-centos01 home]# diff -r test1 test2
Only in test2: 123.txt
Only in test1: ABC.txt

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 11-22-2010
Diff compares all relatively-identical-name files, what do you want?
# 3  
Old 11-22-2010
I have two directories as above. test1 & test2. Each of the directoires have few files in them. I want to compare all the files inside the above two directories. From the above you can see that 123.txt is under test2 directory. And ABC.txt is under test1. But now how do I make them compare between 123.txt and ABC.txt. I don't want to type each of them.
# 4  
Old 11-22-2010
Since 123.txt is only in folder test2, not in folder test1. So how do you compare the difference with this file in two folders?

If you need compare the file content in two folders, maybe you can try:

Code:
find test1 -type f |while read file1
do
  file2=$(echo $file1|sed 's/test1/test2/')
  echo "* show the different on file: $file1 and $file2"
  diff file1 file2
done

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