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donkeyotay

#! CrunchBanger

From: Everywhere

Registered: 2011-01-28

Posts: 166

To compare two directory structures [Solved]

Morning All,
While re-organising my hdd over a period of several weeks, I have managed to get two Music folders

/Stuff/Music/
/Stuff/Dropbox/music/

I think that I have manually synchronised them, but I would like to confirm this. I've had a look at diff but that only seems to compare files (or have I missed something). Rsync seems the next choice but I can't work out I need to use.
Any help, as always, gratefully received.
Cordially
Simon

Last edited by donkeyotay (2012-07-14 11:11:59)

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xaos52

The Good Doctor

From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 4,324

Re: To compare two directory structures [Solved]

Easy, peasy, and you already have part of the solution: diff
Here is how to:
(1)

cd /Stuff/Music
find . >/tmp/list1

(2)

cd /Stuff/Dropbox/music
find . >/tmp/list2

(3)

cd 
diff /tmp/list1 /tmp/list2

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-07-14 09:13:03)

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Tunafish

#! Die Hard

From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2010-03-07

Posts: 1,201

Re: To compare two directory structures [Solved]

Another option is to install meld, a gui for file and folder comparison.

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donkeyotay

#! CrunchBanger

From: Everywhere

Registered: 2011-01-28

Posts: 166

Re: To compare two directory structures [Solved]

xaos52 as ever... Thank you

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