Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 08 at 06:23, Andy Random wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to diff two directory structures, preferably from
>> the command line and in particular I'd like to compare file permissions
>> between the trees. Any suggestions on the best way to do this?
>
> With Bash (needs the named pipe syntax) how about:
>
> diff <(cd $DIR1 ; find . -print | sort | xargs ls -ld ) \
> <(cd $DIR2 ; find . -print | sort | xargs ls -ld )
>
> Fiddle with the ls format arguments depending on the metadata you wish
> to compare.
I know this was posted a long time ago, but I also knew I was going to
have to use it or similar. Here is a minor improvement that copes with
file names containing blanks or newlines.
diff <(cd $DIR1 ; find . -print0 | sort | xargs -0 ls -ld ) \
<(cd $DIR2 ; find . -print0 | sort | xargs -0 ls -ld )
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