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Bash function to differentiate the contents of the current directory with another. Creates folder of diffs in ~/difftree/<dirname>
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| # diff the files in any two directories | |
| function difftree () | |
| { | |
| if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then | |
| echo "DIFFTREE - Be in the source directory to compare." | |
| echo " usage: difftree <path to directory to compare to>" | |
| return 1 | |
| fi | |
| here=`pwd` | |
| there=$1 | |
| diffhome="${HOME}/difftree" | |
| diffbase=`basename $here` | |
| if [ ! -d ${diffhome}/${diffbase} ]; then | |
| mkdir -p ${diffhome}/${diffbase} | |
| fi | |
| for a in *; do | |
| if [ -d "$a" ]; then | |
| echo "Looking at directory: $a" | |
| for b in `find "$a"`; do | |
| if [ -d "$b" ]; then | |
| if [ ! -d "${diffhome}/${diffbase}/$b" ]; then | |
| mkdir "${diffhome}/${diffbase}/`echo $b`"; | |
| fi; | |
| fi; | |
| if [ -e "${there}/`echo $b`" ]; then | |
| if [ ! -d "${there}/`echo $b`" ]; then | |
| diff -b "$b" "${there}/`echo $b`" >> "${diffhome}/${diffbase}/`echo $b`.diff"; | |
| fi; | |
| else | |
| echo >> "${diffhome}/${diffbase}/`echo $b`.does_not_exist" | |
| fi; | |
| done | |
| else | |
| echo "Looking at file: $a" | |
| diff -b "$a" "${there}/`echo $a`" >> "${diffhome}/${diffbase}/`echo $a`.diff"; | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| echo "Diff'd files are in ${diffhome}/${diffbase}" | |
| } |
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