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Offline George Underwood Edwards

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[SOLVED] Is There A Way To Compare Folders?
« on: September 21, 2012, 05:11:02 PM »
I need to compare folders to insure they have the exact same files. But doing this manually is time consuming.

Is there a program that can tell me the difference between two folders? Something that scans the contents and reports differences in file size or in file numbers?
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Re: Is There A Way To Compare Folders?
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 05:34:20 PM »
See man diff for details. If digital files are involved you could try faking it with the -a option. You'll need the -r option to dig into folders.
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Re: Is There A Way To Compare Folders?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 07:44:03 PM »
Files/and/or/Folders
Kompare
Wdiff
diffuse
diffutils
diffpdf
Kdiff3

kdiff3:
Compares or merges two text input files or directoriH
Compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
shows the differences line by line and character by character
and has an intuitive graphical user interface.
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Re: Is There A Way To Compare Folders?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 09:47:21 PM »
Install Krusader from the repo.  Works well.
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Re: Is There A Way To Compare Folders?
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 09:50:00 PM »
Installed Kdiff3 and it seems to do the job.  8)
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