Tool to compare directories

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:34:54PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 15:32 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:16:16AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:49:29 +0000,
> > >   Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >Dear All,
> > > >
> > > >Could you please advise me on a tool to compare two directories? That
> > > >is a tool able to identify the files of the first directory that are
> > > >missing in the second one?
> > > 
> > > You can use diff -r to recursively compare directories.
> > 
> > I use this instead:
> > 
> >   $ rsync -rvnc --delete <olddir> <newdir>
> 
> AFAIK --delete flags files from the target which are not present in the
> source, which is the reverse of what the OP is asking for, so maybe the
> two directories should be inverted.
> 

Yes, I think you are correct.  Thanks for correcting me.  :)

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Suvayu

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