Comparing folder contents

[Arno Hautala]

On 2007/07/29, at 03:24, Andrew Brown wrote:

> I have a folder on my machine with about 600 sub-folders containing  
> about 30000 images and would like to check that the same images are  
> in the same folders on my remote server.  ... I just need to know  
> if the files are there or not.

You could run ls -aR on both folders and diff the output.

Ideally you could run diff -rq <1/> <2/> | grep -v differ
But that would require either the remote to be mounted or some way to  
run diff over a network.

There might be a way using rsync and -n (dry run) to show you what  
files would be updated as well.

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