Compare lots of files

[Paul Howarth]

Frank Cox wrote:
> I just got a new fileserver  and have copied the files off of my old fileserver
> onto this shiny new one.
> 
> Before I take my old filesever offline, I would like to compare the files on
> both machines to insure that nothing got corrupted during the copy process.
> 
> Is there a command that I can use to do this in one shot?  I have been playing
> around with diff and the best I can do is to get it to give me a list of
> "common subdirectories", but it's not comparing the actual files.  It took all
> night to copy the files so I'd think a real compare would take twice that
> long, and everything that I try with diff seems to run in a few seconds.

Check out the "-r" option of diff.

Paul.