Compare to directory structures

[hpuxrox]

Any one know how to compare a directory structure on one machine to another machine.

Im have a permission problem on one of the machines and the directories and files are quit extensive.

Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

machine 1
dir *. > mach1

machine 2

dir *. > mach2


ftp, scp whatever

diff the two files

dir is an alias for us that does an ll -d

If its a paticular file, then use ll -R instead of dir

SEP

[Ken Penland_1]

If you just want to know about the perms on the directories, you could do a:

find /dir1 -type d -exec ls -ald {} \; > /tmp/dir1

find /dir2 -type d -exec ls -ald {} \; > /tmp/dir2

then do a:

diff /tmp/dir1 /tmp/dir2

[Abdul Rahiman]

If you can narrow down your criteria in differences or some file attributes like name, ownership, permissions etc, you can generate two lists on both machines using a find command in combination mode,
eg: for files starting with abc* and permissions 644
# find . -name "abc*" -a -perm 0644 -exec ls -l {} \; > /tmp/a1

or for files owned by abc and permissions 600,
# find . -owner abc -a -perm 0644 -exec ls -l {} \; > /tmp/a1

Then comapre the outputs from both machines by sdiff.
to help the sdiff, just filter out the filelds with differences and probable do a sort before doing an sdiff.

HTH,
Abdul.

[Rodney Hills]

I would recommend you get the utility "els"-
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Users/els-1.48a/

This provides an extended ls utility which is easier to use with scripts.

Then do a list on the first directory-
cd /first/directory
/opt/els/bin/els -R +f':' +TI +G"F':1:'PUGsm" >/tmp/l1

Then do a list on the second-
cd /first/directory
/opt/els/bin/els -R +f':' +TI +G"F':2:'PUGsm" >/tmp/l2

Then run both through sort and uniq-
sort /tmp/l1 /tmp/l2 | sort -u >/tmp/notsame

The sort/uniq combination will filter out those files that are the same between the 2 directorites. What is left are files that exist in only one of the directories and files whose permission/uid/gid/size aren't the same.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Rodney Hills]

oops-

Should have been-

sort /tmp/l1 /tmp/l2 | uniq -u >/tmp/notsame

-- Rod Hills