Comparing two directories
Volker Wysk
post at volker-wysk.de
Thu Aug 29 12:31:29 UTC 2019
Am Dienstag, den 27.08.2019, 18:38 -0400 schrieb Lee Underwood:
> 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 --brief" shows the differences of two directory trees. You
might also use "fdupes", which finds duplicates. You can also delete
them with it.
See the man pages for details.
Cheers
Volker
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