Glad it worked. I forgot to mention: pipe it to sort: diff -r -q dir1 dir2
| sort
Much better!
Sean

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:16 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

> Thanks Sean. That was exactly what I needed.
> I didn't know about that -r option.
> It actually worked better than expected and
> it even worked to show the difference in various files.
> Amazing.
>
>
> > If you just want to compare a listing of files (rather than integrity
> > checks as Stephen mentioned), diff itself can actually compare directory
> > contents. Since one of the directories is remote, I would first mount it
> > via sshfs and use `diff -r -q dir1 dir2`. -r makes diff go through
> > directories recursively and -q will quiet the output (won't show
> > differences between individual files).
>
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