On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Serge de Souza wrote:
J.L. Coenders wrote:Hi,
Is there some command for comparing entire directories? Like a recursive md5sum, which for instance checks if all files and directories (including hidden, etc.) are present in the copied location.
Thanks, - Jeroen
diff -r dir1 dir2
and while we're on the topic, if you want to start generating patches for diffs between directories, there's the nifty little "gendiff" utility that's part of the rpm package.
rday
