"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[email protected]> writes: >>I was looking for a tool to compare directories. Something more >>involved than diff which doesn't ouput changes in files with the same >>names. > > You are using diff wrong then. First, install the "kompare" package. > Then, do something like "diff -druN dir1 di2 | kompare -" to inspect the > differences. "diff -druN dir1 dir2 > my.patch" to save the changes to a > file. "( cd dir1 && patch -p1 ) < my.patch" to apply the changes.
Very wrong... not sure what I was doing but I see from your good lesson this is much more like what I was after... and explains why googling for linux tools for comparison of directories doesn't find much (besides diff). Nice choice of examples too... this will have me busy for a while. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
