On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:40:02AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Is there a command that I can use to do this in one shot? I have been > playing around with diff and the best I can do is to get it to give me a > list of "common subdirectories", but it's not comparing the actual files. > It took all night to copy the files so I'd think a real compare would take > twice that long, and everything that I try with diff seems to run in a few > seconds. Try rsync -avcn. (The "n" will tell it to not actually do anything, just print what it would have done.) And the -c makes it do a checksum of every file. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>