Re: diff: bad treatment of symlinks

[Alan Curry]

In article <address@hidden>,
Andries E. Brouwer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>This evening I did not have diff source nearby and just wrote a
>utility  cmptree  that compares two trees and tells about the
>differences, something many have wished for. Maybe someone else
>also wrote this? In case anybody is interested, I can put it
>somewhere.

(cd tree1 ; tar cf - .) | (cd tree2 ; tar df -)

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Alan Curry