On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Ehud Karni <e...@unix.mvs.co.il> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:21:40, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> >> I guess there is an obvious command for this, I just don't know it. >> >> How can I compare two directory structures if the content is the same >> *disregarding* >> actual file content, or comparing that only if the file names and >> sizes are the same? >> >> As I understand diff -r would do it but it would also compare files >> line by line. > > I had the same problem, so I patched diff to do it. > > I added 2 switches -Z: compare by siZe only, > -M: different Modification time is a difference. > > For a full description with the patches see: > http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-diffut...@gnu.org/msg00023.html > >> As these are images and movies, I don't want to compare them line by >> line or event byte by byte. > > Seems very common these days. >
Very nice. I could not find it out from the archive, has it been accepted? Gabor _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
