[Novalug] Diff for directories?

[Richard Rognlie]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:38:23AM -0400, Nick Danger wrote:
> I have two external HDs. Both are holding a large (60gig+) collection of 
> music files. Somehow I got them out of sync, and each side has a few 
> zero byte files. They differ from drive to drive so I cant just do a 
> bulk copy from one to the other. Is there a diff command for 
> directories? So I can find which files are zero on one side but not on 
> the other? Short of writing some shell/perl, I can't think of anything 
> really easy one command line type.

cd $DIR1; find . -type f -size 0 | sort >/tmp/dir1
cd $DIR2; find . -type f -size 0 | sort >/tmp/dir2
diff /tmp/dir[12]

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