Not sure I understand the question, but perhaps "diff -a" would be
helpful.  Also "sed s/old/new/ ..." is not too ugly.

Cheers,

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> 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?