All Questions
10
questions
1
vote
1
answer
211
views
On Linux, how can one diff directories, excluding files by name, but including directories of the same name?
Consider the following dir/file structure (all leaf nodes are regular files, not that it really matters):
$ tree
.
├── cool_1
│ ├── dumb
│ │ ├── file1
│ │ └── file2
│ └── foo
│ └── ...
- 119
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Is there a way to make Unix diff -r compare only differences in filenames, but not check if any single file actually differs?
I need to compare two large directories with a lot of files in them. I tried using:
diff -r Directory1 Directory2
but unfortunately the process is really slow due to the amount of files and their ...
0
votes
0
answers
69
views
How to set up diff so that it copies all modified and new files and subfolders recursively from a folder at a given interval?
How to set up diff so that it copies all modified and new files and subfolders recursively from a folder at a given interval?
Hi,
I have a folder (A) with a large number of subfolders.
I want to ...
- 428
1
vote
1
answer
944
views
Subtract files from one another recursively between two similar directories
I'm trying to concoct a way to grab two (nearly identical) directories and show me the difference between all files in the two directories.
Looking for two different things:
1- List all files (...
- 145
7
votes
2
answers
12k
views
formatting of the diff output
I have 2 files that I want to differ. File B is produced appending some new line to file A.
I want to highlight the appended data by using diff.
I would like to avoid printing out the '>' characters ...
- 1,775
3
votes
2
answers
4k
views
Tool for diffing large files
When I use "diff" to find the difference between two large data files,
diff A.txt B.txt > dif.info
it is output:
diff:memory exhausted
or add the argument "-H"
diff -H A.txt B.txt > dif....
- 43
3
votes
1
answer
8k
views
why doesn't my .gitconfig work? (for external diff)
I added this in ~/.gitconfig:
[diff]
external = mvimdiff
[difftool]
prompt = false
and made a 755 /bin/mvimdiff that:
#!/bin/sh
mvim -d "$2" "$5"
in order to invoke MacVim as my git diff ...
- 215
3
votes
2
answers
6k
views
Diff and ignore lines missing in one file
I want to diff two files and ignore lines that are present in one file but missing in the other.
For example
File1:
foo
bar
baz
bat
File2:
foo
ball
bat
I'm currently running the following diff ...
- 101
4
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Diff 2 files while ignoring parts of lines
I would like to diff a file system. Currently my bash script prints out the file system recursively into a file (ls -l -R) and diffs it with an expected output.
An example for a line in this file ...
- 101
17
votes
4
answers
22k
views
How to diff directories for different files, but not line-by-line
I want to see, recursively, files that are different in two directories. Diff can do this, but it shows me the line-by-line differences, which I don't want. Is there a tool that does this, or a way to ...
- 1,721