Comparing two directories

[Wade Smart]

OH BUGGER!!!

Little Girl is right!!
I said Recoll but it is Meld.
I use them both often but just said the wrong thing. :)

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:06 PM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
> Lee Underwood wrote:
>
> >I have a directory with graphics in it, i.e., Graphics/example. In
> >order to include it in the shortcuts listing I renamed it, i.e.,
> >Graphics/Graphics-example  (or at least that is what I thought I had
> >done.). However, I somehow created a new directory with the files
> >copied to it. Over time, w/o noticing, I have saved files to both
> >sub-directories. How can I compare the two directories to find any
> >different files?
>
> I really like Meld for that. It's in the Ubuntu package manager and
> it can compare directories and files. Another good one is FSlint. I
> use that for finding duplicate files, but it's capable of a whole
> lot more. Or, if you prefer the command line, you could do a dry run
> with rsync, which is installed in Ubuntu by default, I believe, and
> if it isn't, is in the package manager.
>
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> Little Girl
>
> There is no spoon.
>
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