[PLUG] Compare folders?

[Carlos Konstanski]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:18:52 -0800
> From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: PLUG <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: [PLUG] Compare folders?
> 
> For some reason the cp command has let me down, at least when performed
> with Nautilus.
>
> I have a laptop where the /home folder contains 14.1 GB consisting of
> 65,247 items. Using Nautilus I dragged the entire thing to a folder on
> my desktop. I have done this many times in the past without problem.
> But this time after the copying finished I discovered that the folder
> on the desktop contains only 43,650 items, consisting of 7.8 GB. WTF?
>
> So to troubleshoot what is happening I need to figure out which files
> from the laptop did not make it to the desktop. Hopefully, then I can
> see a pattern which will shed light on what went wrong. I could compare
> the folders manually, that is, if I don't mind spending the rest of my
> life on the project.
>
> There must be a simple file compare utility that will work across two
> computers connected by NFS. Any suggestions?
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diff -r -s <folder1> <folder2>

Carlos Konstanski