Walid wrote: > 2008/6/23 Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd <spiro at knossos.net.nz>: > >> I have 2 drive sets that are supposed to be identical [I use CentOS 5]: >>> A: 1.6Tb >>> B: 1.49Tb >>> I need to find the differences, any suggestion? >>> >> diff will do it. >> >> diff -q /dir-a/ /dir-b/ >> >> the -q will just tell you what files are different, not what's different >> inside the files. >> > I would like to do the same among two, several boxes, that is take thier dir > listing to a certain depth, and compare it for differences as an integrity > check that they have the same installation files? > cd /path/to/check rsync -essh -avn . host:/path/to/check The -n option says not to actually copy anything, -v says to print the filenames where there are differences. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com