<div>Glad it worked. I forgot to mention: pipe it to sort: diff -r -q dir1 dir2 | sort</div>
<div>Much better!</div>
<div>Sean<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:16 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Thanks Sean. That was exactly what I needed.<br>I didn't know about that -r option.<br>It actually worked better than expected and<br>
it even worked to show the difference in various files.<br>Amazing.<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br><br>> If you just want to compare a listing of files (rather than integrity<br>> checks as Stephen mentioned), diff itself can actually compare directory<br>> contents. Since one of the directories is remote, I would first mount it<br>
> via sshfs and use `diff -r -q dir1 dir2`. -r makes diff go through<br>> directories recursively and -q will quiet the output (won't show<br>> differences between individual files).<br><br><br></div>
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