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Script to Compare two directories

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grapes12 (TechnicalUser)
4 Apr 12 6:23
I have the following script which is to compare two directories using the sdiff command

CODE

 #!/bin/ksh

LOCALFOLDER=/u1/mac2
REMOTEFOLDER=$(rsh sun5 'ls -lA /u1/mac2' > remotessh.txt)
COMMAND=$(ls -lA $LOCALFOLDER > localssh.txt)
REM=$(cat remotessh.txt)
LOCAL=$(cat localssh.txt)

echo $LOCAL
echo $REM

if [ $REM -eq $LOCAL ]
 then
      echo Directories are the same
 else
      echo Directories are differnt
 fi

#sdiff localssh.txt remotessh.txt | grep '\|'

The output files were created from local and remote servers, I need to put the differences into another file and email the differences how will I do that?

I would also like to cut from the files created the permissions etc, how can i do that?
herewith output file

CODE

drwxrwxr-x   3 mac2     querix         3 Nov 30 00:00 .sunstudio
drwx------   3 mac2     querix         3 Nov 30 00:00 .sunw
drwxr-xr-x   3 mac2     querix         3 Nov 30 00:00 .vim
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix      6197 Nov 30 00:00 .viminfo
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix       102 Nov 30 00:00 .vimrc
-rw-------   1 mac2     querix       200 Nov 30 00:00 .Xauthority
-rwxrwxr-x   1 mac2     querix     46352 Nov 30 00:00 a_calc00.4ge
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix     11902 Nov 30 00:00 a_calc00.4gl
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix        60 Nov 30 00:00 a_calc00.def
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix      1527 Nov 30 00:00 a_calc01.per
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix      1464 Nov 30 00:00 a_calc01.pic
-rwxrwxr-x   1 mac2     querix     66208 Nov 30 00:00 a_ecb000.4ge
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix     24895 Nov 30 00:00 a_ecb000.4gl
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix       112 Nov 30 00:00 a_ecb000.def
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix       444 Nov 30 00:00 a_ecb000.per
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix       322 Nov 30 00:00 a_ecb000.pic
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix      1929 Nov 30 00:00 a_ecb001.per
-rw-rw-r--   1 mac2     querix      2357 Nov 30 00:00 a_ecb001.pic
 
FlorianAwk (Programmer)
4 Apr 12 17:02
To keep the first column of "myfile.txt", type:

CODE

awk '{print $1}' myfile.txt
tarn (TechnicalUser)
4 Apr 12 18:08
Would you not be better off checking checksum/MD5 Sum's of the files within directories on each of the specific nodes building a sorted listing then fetch the lists from each node and diff them against the master node, producing a report for each?

Or is that a bit too low-level for your needs?

Or you could utilize something like Tripwire that does that and more for you ;)


Laurie.    
grapes12 (TechnicalUser)
5 Apr 12 3:08
Thanks,

I got the Awk working.BUT i have sub-directories within the directory that i would also like to check.
I changed my script to do a "ls -lAR" to include files from all subdirectories.

MY txt file displaying all differences is much bigger, but not showing me in which directory the differences are
How can i change my script to list the directories and the files within that sub-directories.
Annihilannic (MIS)
6 Apr 12 5:26
Instead of using ls -lAR try using find /u1/mac2 | xargs ls -ld, that way it should include the full path with every filename.

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