Hi All,

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 and need one help. here , I am trying to check files and their sizes, in case, they are not matched , I need to produce the files , which are not identical in terms on names and size. following are 2 mount points. the one is source and the other is target. now, I need to compare files target to source , if they matches. the source and target has around 28 mount points.

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Source -- /db/ptmtrain/data**/*dbf*
Target -- /db/ptmqa/data**/*dbf*

Regards
Alok

Ok, we'll be happy to help you. So post what you have written/tried of your own, and tell us where you're stuck. But we aren't going to write your shell scripts for you; there are MANY easily-found bash scripting guides with examples, and there's even one in my posting signature here.

Start by reading the man pages on the find command. You can recurse directory trees with it, and find files matching a particular pattern (such as *dbf*), and return the size of those files. From there, you can perform whatever actions you want.

Are you trying to compare the filenames or the sizes (or the contents ?)

1. filenames you need to produce sorted lists of src & destn, then diff them
2. as per 1, but now you can compare sizes eg 'ls -l' for each file
3. contents - use a checksum eg sha512sum