comparing directories

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:54:07 -0500, Steve Buehler wrote:

> Is there a script or program that can compare directories and report the 
> differences.  It would have to work recursively.  For some reason when I am 
> using rsync to mirror a NFS drive, the "df" information is off by about 15 
> gigs afterwards.

diff --brief --recursive --new-file directory1 directory2

Assumes that both directories are supposed to contain exactly the same
files.

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