[ccoss] Re: seeing how many files are in a directory tree --a solution

Christopher Paulin wrote:

>Bill wrote:
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>>right...that's what I get for not trying it out for rea....
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>>What I actually do is more like this:
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>>(cd src/path; find  . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; ) > src.md5sum
>>(cd dest/path; find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; ) > dest.md5sum
>>diff src.md5sum dest.md5sum
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><--cut uneeded stuff-->
>

>p450:/mnt/mandrake/home/chris_temp # (cd ../chris ; find  . -type f 
>-exec md5sum {} \; ) > src.md5sum
>.................takes some time to complete...............
>p450:/mnt/mandrake/home/chris_temp # exit
>exit
>chris@p450:/mnt/mandrake/home/chris_temp> more src.md5sum
>c0cdfa2dbe9f4c977b0a71fb08ddff0e  ./src/cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz
><--snip-->
>

>You get relative paths instead of absolute paths. The paths and md5 sums 
>can both be compared.
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>
No...the "." is the relative path part and is identical in source and 
destination find...it does not introduce a diff..If the filesystem you 
use does not maintain case, then you do of course have a valid point 
about potential case-changes...."man diff" shows "diff -i " will address 
this directly.

but I suspect we have exhausted this topic. Other weaknesses are that 
empty directories are not verified, other types of things that ar 
non-files (links, pipes, etc) are ignored, but then again, each can be 
addressed by more sophisticated means, but most of the time it's not 
necessary.

>Quoted from below:
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>Also copying to a Windows partition [from a different file system] changes the 
>case (lower- and upper-case) of some files.
>
>...except that would create a difference.
>
>Christopher Paulin
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>>But I also usually do it the first (wrong) way first, before remembering 
>>this detail!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>Christopher Paulin wrote:
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