[vox-tech] binary equivalence of two directories

Peter Jay Salzman p at dirac.org
Thu Mar 17 05:26:26 PST 2005


On Wed 16 Mar 05, 10:42 PM, Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> said:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:26 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > What's the quick and dirty way of using md5sum or sha1sum to check the
> > equivalence of the files residing in two directories?  I suppose I can whip
> > up a Perl script to traverse the directories, but I'm wondering if there's a
> > short one liner (or perhaps an already written utility) to do this.
> 
> How about:
> 
> $ diff -r dir1 dir2
> 
> -- Rod

I totally spaced that diff recurses.   How embarrasing!   :)

Thanks,
Pete

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