Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell and are we doing your CS homework for you?
On Sunday 24 February 2008 02:21 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, > file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern > and are very large in size. > > Now is there any way to compare > > dir1/file1.txt and dir2/file1.txt > dir1/file2.txt and dir2/file2.txt > .... > dir1/file50.txt and dir2/file50.txt > > > Manually diffing the files 50 times is cumbersome. Something like > > diff dir1/file*.txt dir2/file*.txt > > is what I am after. I do not want to do > > diff -r dir1 dir2 > > since that compares the other 950 files as well besides the 50 files that I > want. Any idea how to achieve this in the most generic fashion? Has anyone > done this kind of thing before? > > thanks > raju > -- > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
