Compare two folder

[unixisbest]

Hi all,
I need your solutions to compare two folders. I have two folders which has same directory and file structure. But i need to check that if both of them have equal files or not. And if there are any diferencies between two same files need to log it into a file.

My idea is using diff command like for example,

diff /usr/disk1/folder1/progs/PROG1 /usr/disk2/folder2/progs/PROG1


But the problem is there are thousends of files with diferent locations like this. So first i need to put files file paths into a file and then use diff command file by file. Therefore it is not gonna be easy.

Do you know any tool that can make this? Or any script idea?

Thanks guys

 

[PHV]

The GNU diff may recursively compare 2 directory structures.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[theotyflos]

If you are on a Sco machine, there's "dircmp".

Hope it helps.

Theophilos.

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There are only 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

[unixisbest]

Sorry that i forgot to tell about Unix machine i have. I use HP-UX.

 

[theotyflos]

Actually dircmp is just a shell script that creates lists of the files contained in the two directories and compares them. The problem is that I don't know if it is copyrighted (so I can post it here).

Theophilos.

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There are only 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

[unixisbest]

Hi theo,
Thanks for advice. HP-UX also has dircmp and it seems work well.