Re: Q: verify copy of directory tree?

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From: Joerg Hau
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:35

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On 15 Jan 2001 18:16:02 +0100, Felix Rauch wrote:
> Joerg Hau <joerg.hau@swissonline.ch> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a simple way to compare two complete diretory trees on
> > a file-by-file basis. I thought of using 'find' together with 'cmp',
> > something like
> [...]
> 
> Shouldn't something like
>   diff -r dir1 dir2
> do the trick too? For more details on "diff" see "man diff".

Jup, it does (Marc Schaefer told me the same -thanx Marc!). The
"problem" was that I always thought 'diff' would only be useful for text
files ... ;-)

Thanks,

-- Joerg

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