cksum entire dir??

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:23:47AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2012 22:29:45 Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > 	how, with mtree, could I tell  whether dir1 == dir2 or not?
> 
> From the manpage:
> 
> ``The mtree utility compares the file hierarchy rooted in the
> current directory against a specification read from the standard
> input.  Messages are written to the standard output for any files
> whose characteristics do not match the specifications, or which
> are missing from either the file hierarchy or the specification.''
> 
> So you run mtree twice, once against dir1 with the -c option to output the 
> specification for the directory tree to stdout (which you can capture to a 
> file, or pipe straight into the second invocation) and once against dir2 with 
> the output of the first one as input (either in a pipeline, or by using -f 
> with the filename of the captured output).
> 
> Jonathan
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	I'm having unexpected troubles with my old BSD server.  ...

	I've seen Waitman's examples, and your paragraphs above--[thankx, both
	of you, BTW].  I'Ve got several hours of piecing the fragments of my
	original *desktop* back together.  Following that, I'll be back.

	gary


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