[TAG] 2Cent Tip: Comparing all files in a directory

[Peter Knaggs]

On 2/24/06, Thomas Adam <thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:26:34PM -0500, Suramya Tomar wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >  Recently I had to compare all files in a directory with all files in
> > another directory to see which of the files had changed and what the
> > differences were.
>
> I just use 'dirdiff', personally.

Oooh, nice one, thanks! :)

I wonder if the "unison-gtk" folks ever talked
to the "dirdiff" folks...

In unison, it'd be nice to be able to take a
quick look-see sometimes, to figure out what
actually changed in the files (the way dirdiff
shows when you double-click on it).

unison works nicely across ssh, that's
why I tend to use it a lot for syncing
directory trees (at the time, it seemed
easier to pick up and understand than rsync).

Peter.