[CLUE-Tech] Just a little help?

[Dale K. Hawkins]

I hate to keep bring it up, but what are you _really_ trying to
accomplish?

Depending on what you are trying to do, there is most likely already a
tool out which does it much, much better (debugged, thorough, etc.) 

If you are trying to compare some directories, wouldn't you simply use
diff?

For example would

$ diff -q /home/dlwillson /backup/dlwillson

do what you want?

What about rsync in dry-run mode?

$ rsync -n -av /home/dlwillson /backup/dlwillson

For all my experience with UNIX, I have learned that laziness is still
a very strong motivator.  Listen to your inner bum! :-)

That being sed (or said), is will this work for you?

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#!/bin/bash

src=/home/dhawkins/tmp
dst=/tmp

for dn in `find $src -type d | sed "s@$src@$dst at g"`
do
    test -d $dn || echo $dn
done

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-Dale

David Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> writes:

> I got the hard part done.  Or so it seems.  I have written a script that will
> replace a 'source' directory's name in all the found directory-names with a
> target directory's name.  Now, I want to test each line of output for
> directory-ness, and record the source directory that doesn't have a matching target.