Re: A directory diff

A quick-n-dirty ksh/bash script version of this is:

diff  <(ls -l /dir1) <(ls -l /dir2)
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It doesn't have nearly as many features and the output is hard to read, so it's mostly here as a curiosity, and an example of another possible approach from someone who does live there. :)

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Re^2: A directory diff by hsmyers (Canon) on Sep 01, 2004 at 13:01 UTC
It does seem like a nice place to live, sigh---thanks for the postcard. Maybe I can convince some of my clients to vist!! --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply]
Re^3: A directory diff by BravoTwoZero (Scribe) on Dec 03, 2004 at 17:18 UTC
But you can visit, and for free! Cygwin You get bash and most other shell environments and utilities at your diposal. It's nice to be at a Win32 command line using ls. MS Services for Unix I'm personally more partial to Cygwin, but it's free with ksh as the default shell.	[reply]
Re^4: A directory diff by hsmyers (Canon) on Dec 03, 2004 at 20:57 UTC
I've got and have used/use both. Like you am much more partial to Cygwin. Having said that, my ultimate preference is to have non-Cygwin dll based utilities where ever possible. The real problem is not on my machine, but as I mentioned, on my client's boxen---can't seem to convince them that it's ok to be free and live well, they are still caught in a lockstep with the robots from Redmond...sigh (some more) --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply]