cksum entire dir??

[Paul Kraus]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM,  <kpneal at pobox.com> wrote:

> It's a real shame Unix doesn't have a really good tool for comparing
> two directory trees. You can use 'diff -r' (even on binaries), but that
> fails if you have devices, named pipes, or named sockets in the
> filesystem. And diff or cksum don't tell you if symlinks are different.
> Plus you may care about file ownership, and that's where the stat
> command comes in handy.

Solaris and a least a few versions of Linux have a "dircmp" command
that is in reality a wrapper for diff that handles special files. The
problem with it is that it tends to be slow (I had to validate
millions of files).

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