URGENT: how to compare the content of two directories in solaris

Hi,

I would like to compare the two directories in solaris. Any script i can use to archieve this purpose?

Hopefully the script can find the different of these two direcotries and will scan the sub folder too.


Many many Thanks!

Start with reading "man diff". If you have troubles, write again.

read man diff
to state: diff is the wrong tool, but you get a link to dircmp

not clear what you want compare.

I want to compare two directories to find out:
- new file
- changed file
- deleted file


And then can display a summary after compare:

Summary:
New : 5
Changed: 3
Deleted : 1


Thanks

Here you are:

:
usage () {
echo "$0: call: $0 old_dir new_dir" >&2
exit 1
}

# Check the arguments
[ $# -eq 2 ] || usage
[ -d $1 ] || usage
[ -d $2 ] || usage
# Store the directories
OLDD=$1
NEWD=$2
# Contents of the old directory
cd $OLDD
find . >/tmp/cont_old
# Contents of the new directory
cd $NEWD
find . >/tmp/cont_new

# Determine what is only in the old directory
comm -23 /tmp/cont_old /tmp/cont_new >/tmp/in_old
# Determine what is only in the new directory
comm -13 /tmp/cont_old /tmp/cont_new >/tmp/in_new
# Determine what is in both directories
comm -12 /tmp/cont_old /tmp/cont_new >/tmp/in_both

# Evaluate the lists
NEW=`cat /tmp/in_new | wc -l`
DEL=`cat /tmp/in_old | wc -l`
CHAN=0
while read APP; do
# Do not test the subdirectories
[ -d $APP ] && continue
# Get rid of './'
APP=${APP#./}
# Compare the plain files
diff $OLDD/$APP $NEWD/$APP 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || {
CHAN=`expr $CHAN + 1`
}
done</tmp/in_both

# Output
echo "New:" $NEW
echo "Changed:" $CHAN
echo "Deleted:" $DEL


I give you the fish, but you should learn to catch one yourself. To begnin with, you can study and modify my scritpt. It should remove the working files on end, give the possibility to show the differences, try set -xv to see the intermediate results...

I have tested it under Solaris, but it should run on every Unix.

Regards