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

[Les A Carr]

That's fine if you have two candidate duplicate directories, but I want to identify all the files across various hard disks that may be the same as any others!
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les


On 14 Dec 2011, at 13:02, Marcus Cobden wrote:

> There's always the Unix diff command
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> diff -r dir1 dir2
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> 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.
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> Finally, the timestamps on the files might be useful, so if you move/copy them around, take care to preserve them.
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> Marcus
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> On 14 Dec 2011, at 12:08, Les A Carr wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Before I go too far down this road (shell scripts and md5 checksums!) does anyone know of any software that already does this?
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>> Les
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