Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I have 2 directories on two different servers. I am trying to find out what is missing from directory X and what is missing from directory Y. they should both have the same exact files in them.

I understand some files may be missing from both directories on each server. I am not sure how to approach this. I already did an ls of each directory to a text file, now I just need to compare and filter. Is there an easy way I can do this with 'diff' or do I need to take another approach?

Thanks in advance

Be lazy.
Create a new directory Z. Copy all the files in X to Z and all the files in Y to Z then copy Z over top of X and Y. After that, you have to compare the list of files to your master list to find any files that were missing in both.

I was thinking of doing that too, by far the easiest way.

i have some concerns about doing this in a production system though..But the differences in the files will still be in the thousands, so a script will probably still be required.. Thanks for the advice.

Is it the goal to know if there are missing files, or to keep the files in sync?

For the latter, I recommend rsync, which copies only missing files.

Are the files text or binary (executables)?

they are - data or International Language text

Do you want to know about different contents too or is it enough if files with the right names exist.

For the latter(just an idea, not tested)

Code:

user@server1 $ ls >files-s1
user@server2 $ ls >files-s2
# create all files list
cat files-s1 files-s2 | sort -u >files-all

# missing from server1
grep -f files-s1 -v files-all