[Gllug] Diff only for file size
C. Cooke
ccooke at gkhs.net
Tue Jul 29 23:33:51 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:39:56PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> Anyone know how to diff 2 directory trees but compare only file size rather
> than a char-by-char comparison (v.slow) ?
>
Given two directories, t1 and t2:
diff -u \
<( cd t1; find . -printf "%p %s\n" ) \
<( cd t2; find . -printf "%p %s\n" )
Will show you which files differ in size only. Grep for lines beginning
with '+' to show the files which have changed in the second directory.
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Charles Cooke, Sysadmin
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