On Thu, Oct 23, 2008, Bowie Bailey wrote: >David Hlácik wrote: >> Hello guys, >> >> I have two mirrors. I need to compare files and directories on both >> mirrors and as a result print list of those which are missing on >> mirror 2 >> >> What i did >> >> find /data > find.mirror1 >> >> find /data > find.mirror2 >> >> Now i need to get list of those directories which are missing in >> mirror1. > >find /data | sort > find.mirror1 > >find /data | sort > find.mirror2 > >diff find.mirror1 find.mirror2 A somewhat cleaner way of doing this is to use the ``comm'' command as it generates a straight list as opposed to diff which requires parsing the output. cd /dir1 find . | sort > /tmp/find.mirror1 cd /dir2 find . | sort > /tmp/find.mirror2 # This will give a list of lines in mirror2 not in mirror1 comm -13 /tmp/find.mirror1 /tmp/find.mirror2 > /tmp/missingfrom1 # This will give a list of files in mirror1 not in mirror2 comm -23 /tmp/find.mirror1 /tmp/find.mirror2 > /tmp/missingfrom2 Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Democracy must be sometihng more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner -- James Bovard