how to check if the restored and original are the same

[Harry Hoffman]

You're probably better doing a md5sum of all of the files and then
diff'ing that.

This will you'll know if a file's content has changed instead of just
whether the file is in both places.

Cheers,
Harry

Lunt, Nick wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zhicheng wang [mailto:wang_zc at yahoo.co.uk]
>> Sent: 20 April 2006 13:57
>> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: how to check if the restored and original are the same
>>
>>
>> Dear all
>>
>> does anyone know how to verify if two directories are
>> the same: 
>>
> 
> Theres probably better methods but how about this
> 
> ls -lR /dir1 > /tmp/dir1.out
> ls -lR /dir2 > /tmp/dir2.out
> diff /tmp/dir1.out /tmp/dir2.out
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