Compare lots of files

[Benjamin Franz]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, 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.

diff -r --brief directory1 directory2

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Benjamin Franz

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