topic Re: Comparing folder in Operating System - HP-UX

Comparing folder

Jason Tan — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 01:02:17 GMT

I have this scenerio, i got two directory, one is list_current and the other is list_restore. Both are identical with some same files and subdirectory. My question is, what combination of command best suite to do the following task.

search all files inside list_restore and list_current then compare both of them by SIZE and list out.

Re: Comparing folder

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 01:08:22 GMT

Hi:

Have a look at 'dircmp'. You can also use 'diff -r'. See the man pages for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Comparing folder

Vincent Stedema — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 10:51:11 GMT

Hi,

You can use "cksum" to compare files on an individual basis.

Regards,

Vincent

Re: Comparing folder

Armin Feller — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 13:01:17 GMT

Hi,

use the dircmp(1) command.

For example,

# dircmp -d list_restore list_current

compares the two directories list_restore and list_current and produces a list of changes that would make the directories identical.

Regrads,
Armin