Friday, November 28, 2014

Compare 2 directory in Linux

Let's make an example. Create 2 folder and put files in it
mkdir dir{1,2}
touch dir1/{1,2,3,4,5,6}.txt
touch dir2/{2,4,5,7,9}.txt

ls -R dir1
dir1:
1.txt  2.txt  3.txt  4.txt  5.txt  6.txt

ls -R dir2
dir2:
2.txt  4.txt  5.txt  7.txt  9.txt

diff -r dir1 dir2
Only in dir1: 1.txt
Only in dir1: 3.txt
Only in dir1: 6.txt
Only in dir2: 7.txt
Only in dir2: 9.txt

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16787916/difference-between-2-directories-in-linux

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