4censord 14h ago

I have two folders.
A is an older version of B, having been copied at some point.
There may be changes in A but that are not in B.

I wanna find out if there are any, and what they are if they exist.

How do i do that, preferably using Linux standard utils

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@4censord the diff util?
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Show thread4censord 14h ago

@16af93 @hannah these ones both recomended diff
that does technically work, but this is a 500Gb 150k files folder

so may not be that ideal to then sort through

Show threadHannah (With a snake problem 🐍)13h ago
@4censord @16af93 Ah. That indeed complicates things a little.
Though... if the directories are really big then any approach will most likely take huge amounts of time.