Compare folders and find missing files
P. Echols
p.echo926 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 07:40:09 UTC 2020
Greetings all,
is there a way to get "find" to return only when a file is NOT found?
I am attempting to list the files on a flash drive (/media/project/) ,
but ONLY, if those files don't exist in a particular folder in my
computer (~/Documents/sub-tree/). If I cd to the sub-tree folder, I
can run the following:
find /media/project/ -type f -exec basename {} \; | while read fname;
do find -name "$fname"; done
This will list the path and file name for all the files that are
found. But not the ones that are not found. Any thoughts how I might
accomplish this?
Thanks
-- PE
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