Comparing two directories

[Olivier]

Lee Underwood <mail at leeunderwood.org> writes:

> 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?

diff -r directory1 directory2

It will tell you what directory exists only in one hierarchy, whay files
are uniques, what files exist with the same name but different contents.

Olivier

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