Author: AndyMHancockAndyMHancock Date: Mar 30, 2008 15:18
On Mar 29, 9:27 pm, Bill Marcum bellsouth.net> wrote:> On 2008-03-30, AndyMHanc...@ gmail.com gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I'm doing a recursive diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7 for in an up-to-date
>> cygwin. The help explains that a symbolic link is treated as if it
>> was the file that is linked to. Is there a way to find the
>> differences in two file trees, including situations where a file is a
>> symbolic link in one tree but not the other? >
>> Thanks.
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> Use "find . -type l".
Bill,
Appreciate the pointer to the find switch. I was wondering, though,
if there was a way to find *differences* between potentially large
file trees in such a way that the a difference is recognized as
including a file in one tree existing as a link in the other tree.
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