[Linux general] copy diff of 2 folders to a separate folder

[Steve Flynn]

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On 10/03/10 22:03, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Kaiser <ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li> wrote:
>> When I diff to folders, I get a output like this:
>> Only in /var/www/images/stories/fruit: ABS.jpg
>>
>> Now, I would like to copy the "Only in" to a different folder (with full
>> path name, if possible).
> 
> 
> ugly as sin, but I suspect works (untested!)
> 
> diff -rq folder1 folder2 | awk -F ': ' '{print $2}' > listOfFilesToCopy.txt
> for ITEM in $(cat listOfFilesToCopy.txt) ; do cp -v "$ITEM" outputFolder ; done

I was messing with something similar. Just got around to posting it only
to find you'd beaten me to it.... curses.


(
IFS=":\t\n"
diff folder1 folder2 | (read filler filler dir file && echo $dir $file >
tempfile.$$)
loop over tempfile.$$ as Brian has done above.
)

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Steve Flynn
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