From ilug-admin@linux.ie Wed Aug 28 10:49:25 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684BD44158 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:48:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:48:19 +0100 (IST) Received: from lugh.tuatha.org (root@lugh.tuatha.org [194.125.145.45]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7S8wTZ17205 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:58:29 +0100 Received: from lugh (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12291; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:57:42 +0100 Received: from corvil.com. (k100-159.bas1.dbn.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.100.159]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12252 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:57:32 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lugh.tuatha.org: Host k100-159.bas1.dbn.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.100.159] claimed to be corvil.com. Received: from corvil.com (pixelbeat.local.corvil.com [172.18.1.170]) by corvil.com. (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7S8vSn4051594 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:57:28 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from padraig.brady@corvil.com) Message-Id: <3D6C9060.7090308@corvil.com> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:57:04 +0100 From: Padraig Brady Organization: Corvil Networks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ilug@linux.ie Subject: Re: [ILUG] directory merging References: <20020827082935.GS13271@jinny.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: ilug-admin@linux.ie Errors-To: ilug-admin@linux.ie X-Mailman-Version: 1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Irish Linux Users' Group X-Beenthere: ilug@linux.ie John P. Looney wrote: > I've two directories, that once upon a time contained the same files. > > Now, they don't. > > Is there a tool to merge the two - create a new directory where if the > files are the same, they aren't changed, if they are different, the one > with the most recent datestamp is used... Just for the record mc has a nice directory comparison function. This is really nice when using the ftp VFS for e.g. Of course if you use something like ftpfs you can use the previously mentioned tools. Pádraig. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie