On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:56:17 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 137, Issue 55 > > Hi Beto, > > (offlist as it's just a silly answer, not one for X) Hey Ian, thx, not a silly answer at all > > > I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories > > (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( textproc/meld ) > > can do this to some extent, showing missing files,etc, but not showing > > what files are different withoug having to open each file and do a diff. > > Well of course 'diff -r dir1 dir2 | less' does that well in an xterm :) > yeah, but it's just way too verbose. something that allows very quick determination of differences / missing files, transfer them from one tree to another,etc. Specially for LARGE trees. > But I guess you're after a more pointy clicky solution :) not because of point+click per se, but yes for faster overview of things. > > Cheers, Ian > > just checking for myself .. > [...] > % diff bittorrent/ bittorrent2/ > diff bittorrent/differingfile bittorrent2/differingfile > 1,2c1,3 > < this one in bittorrent dir yeah.. i tried this with 2 src trees with over 1.2 K files each... it was way too much to digest quickly :D thx :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
