[OSX-Users] Re: reconciling duplicated files/directories/backups

[Marcus Cobden]

There's always the Unix diff command

diff -r dir1 dir2

I prefer to add in the -u option, and also view a colorised version.
Also I'm pretty sure you can get it to only tell you that files differ, and not how.

Finally, the timestamps on the files might be useful, so if you move/copy them around, take care to preserve them.

Marcus

On 14 Dec 2011, at 12:08, Les A Carr wrote:

> I am writing some simple tools to help me reconcile multiple copies of files/directories from various attempts to back up or duplicate information across machines for safekeeping.
> 
> Before I go too far down this road (shell scripts and md5 checksums!) does anyone know of any software that already does this?
> --
> Les