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rileymartin 07-20-2011 08:09 AM
Compare directory content that has since been udpated
 
Hi,

We copied the directories/files from one filesys1 to filesys2 and since that initial copy have further added more directories/files to filesys2 from another source. How can we compare filesys1 to filesys2 to make sure all files/directories were copied successfully to filesys2? I would like a way to check filesys1 against filesys2 and only show/output when something is missing from filesys2 that exists in filesys1 and not report the additional/extra directroies/files that have been copied to filesys2.

Thanks,

Riley

Snark1994 07-20-2011 08:22 AM
Something like:
Code:
diff filesys1/path/to/dir filesys2/path/to/dir -qr | grep "Only in filesys1"
should work fine. If you also wanted to see if there were any files which were different between filesys1 and filesys2 (ie. not copied properly / overwritted) then you can use:
Code:
diff filesys1/path/to/dir filesys2/path/to/dir -qr | egrep -v "Only in filesys2"
Hope this helps,

rileymartin 07-20-2011 08:56 AM
Thank you!

I think that's exactly what I need.

Snark1994 07-21-2011 04:56 AM
Glad to be of assistance. :) Could you mark the thread as '[SOLVED]' using the thread tools, please?

Thanks,


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