RE : how to compare/diff two dirs/folders

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>  De : bruce [mailto:[e-mail]] 
>  Envoyé : jeudi 2 juin 2005 14:55
>  À : 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
>  Objet : how to compare/diff two dirs/folders
>  
>  
>  hi..
>  
>  looking for a way to do a 'recursive' diff on two different 
>  dirs.. can't seem to find a way to accomplish this.. i'd like 
>  to have a listing of the files that have changed, and the 
>  lines that have been changed... 
Did you look at Meld ? http://meld.sourceforge.net/ and is available through
Extras repository :
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/3/i386/repodata/repoview/meld-0-0.9.5-1.html
 
>  any ideas/thoughts...
>  
>  thanks
>  
>  -bruce
>  bedouglas(a)earthlink.net
>   
Hope it will help,
Sincerely yours, Mathieu.

[James Kosin]

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mathieu.millet(a)ratp.fr wrote:

|>-----Message d'origine-----
|>De : bruce [mailto:[e-mail]]
|>Envoyé : jeudi 2 juin 2005 14:55
|>À : 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
|>Objet : how to compare/diff two dirs/folders
|>
|>
|>hi..
|>
|>looking for a way to do a 'recursive' diff on two different
|>dirs.. can't seem to find a way to accomplish this.. i'd like
|>to have a listing of the files that have changed, and the
|>lines that have been changed...
|
|
|Did you look at Meld ? http://meld.sourceforge.net/ and is available
through
|Extras repository :
|http://fedoraproject.org/extras/3/i386/repodata/repoview/meld-0-0.9.5-1.html
|

Actually, 'diff -urNp /path/to/dir /path/to/other/dir' works wonders
as well.
This is actually how many developers make patch files and it works for
all types, except binary files.

Good Luck,
James

|>any ideas/thoughts...
|>
|>thanks
|>
|>-bruce
|>bedouglas(a)earthlink.net
|>
|
|Hope it will help,
|Sincerely yours, Mathieu.
|

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