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

[Leslie Carr]

One of the problems is my increasing similarity to a grandmother :-)

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On 14 Dec 2011, at 15:22, "Marcus Cobden" <mc08r at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Haha, good point.
> 
> It sounds like he has a more complicated problem than I was imagining.
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> On 14 Dec 2011, at 13:15, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> 
>> Hi Marcus,
>> If you are telling less how to use diff, i think you may be instructing your grandma how to such eggs :-)
>> 
>> I think (hope) that Les is looking for something that will have a look around (maybe on a few disks) and report back where it finds some directory structures (with possibly several thousand files) are the same.
>> If he finds something or builds it I would be a grateful recipient.
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 Dec 2011, at 13:02, Marcus Cobden wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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