Given two directory trees, how can I find out which files differ by content? [closed]
Try:
diff --brief --recursive dir1/ dir2/Or alternatively, with the short flags -qr:
diff -qr dir1/ dir2/If you also want to see differences for files that may not exist in either directory:
diff --brief --recursive --new-file dir1/ dir2/ # with long optionsdiff -qrN dir1/ dir2/ # with short flag aliases
The command I use is:
diff -qr dir1/ dir2/It is exactly the same as Mark's :) But his answer bothered me as it uses different types of flags, and it made me look twice. Using Mark's more verbose flags it would be:
diff --brief --recursive dir1/ dir2/I apologise for posting when the other answer is perfectly acceptable. Could not stop myself... working on being less pedantic.