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Jul 122010
 

Compare the difference between two directories

Answer:

You have two directories, say /foo and /bar, and you want to compare the difference between this two directories, you can use

# diff -r /foo /bar

If you only want to know which files difference, you can use

# diff -qr /foo /bar

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