Tool to compare directories

[Suvayu Ali]

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>

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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