dirdiff

dirdiff lets you compare directories file by file.

Installation

Packages for Linux distros, BSDs, Mac and Windows are a TODO. In the mean time you can install it using cargo from crates.io:

$ cargo install dirdiff

Building

The executable

You will need make and cargo to do that.

To build the debug version, run:

$ make build-debug

The resulting binary will be located at target/debug/dirdiff.

To build the release version, run:

$ make build-release

The resulting binary will be located at target/release/dirdiff.

The man page

You will need make, gzip and scdoc to do that.

$ make build-man

The resulting gzipped man page will be located at dirdiff.1.gz.

Running tests

You will need make, cargo and shelltestrunner to do that.

Unit tests of the debug version:

$ make debug-unit-tests

Unit tests of the release version:

$ make release-unit-tests

Functional tests of the debug version:

$ make debug-func-tests

Functional tests of the release version:

$ make release-func-tests

Options

dirdiff(1)                  General Commands Manual                 dirdiff(1)

NAME
       dirdiff - compare directories file by file

SYNOPSIS
       dirdiff [option]... <old> <new>

OPTIONS
       -q, --brief
           Report only when directories differ.

       -p, --progress
           Show progress bar.

       --color <when>
           Print output in color (<when> may be one of: never, always, auto).

       --percent
           Utf-8 percent-encode paths using the path percent-encode set. If
           you want to parse dirdiff's output in a script, then you should use
           this option.

       -b, --block-size <block-size>
           Read files in blocks of <block-size> bytes.

       -h, --help
           Print help information and exit.

       --version
           Print version information and exit.

AUTHOR
       Written by Jakub Alba <jakub@yakubin.com>.

SEE ALSO
       diff(1) hashdeep(1)

Example usage

$ tree old new
old
├── bar
├── c
├── d
└── foo
    ├── a
    └── baz
new
├── b
├── c
├── d
└── foo
    ├── a
    └── baz

5 directories, 7 files
$ diff -q {old,new}/foo/a
Files old/foo/a and new/foo/a differ
$ diff -q {old,new}/c
Files old/c and new/c differ
$ diff -q {old,new}/d
$ dirdiff old new
+ b
- bar
~ c
~ foo/a

Contributing

Send patches/bug reports to jakub@yakubin.com.