Re: Q: verify copy of directory tree?

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From: Felix Rauch
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:16

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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".

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