diffing special chars

[sinck@ugive.com]

\_ moin, moin,
\_ 
\_ doing a couple of filesystems lists and then diffing them to make sure
\_ they contain the same files. I'm running into a prob with files that have
\_ either special chars or spaces embedded in the name/path.
\_ 
\_ find wants to turn special chars into gobbly-gook, whereas tar renders the
\_ escapes sequences. Use ls -b to turn the special chars into escape
\_ sequences it also adds escapes for spaces, which tar doesn't do.
\_ 
\_ Either of these probs trips up diff when verifying that the file lists are
\_ the same.
\_ 
\_ Anyone know a solution that doesn't require brute forcing with tools like
\_ perl or sed/awk?

Yeah.  Wetware will do it just fine, particularly if assisted by a
printer and a secretary.  :-)

Or try ediff-compare-buffers in emacs.  Pretty light show; it'll at
least page through the differences coherently for you.

David