dircmp(1)

dircmp -- directory comparison

Synopsis

dircmp [-d] [-s] [-wn] dir1 dir2

Description

dircmp examines dir1 and dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories. Listings of files that are unique to each directory are generated for all the options. If no option is entered, a list is output indicating whether the file names common to both directories have the same contents. dircmp processes supplementary code set characters in directory and file names according to the locale specified in the LC_CTYPE environment variable (see LANG on environ(5)).

During execution dircmp creates temporary files in TMPDIR. This variable defaults to /var/tmp if it is not set in the user's environment, or if the path represented by it is not a valid directory. If there is not enough space in TMPDIR, whatever its definition, dircmp will fail.

Command options

-d: Compare the contents of files with the same name in both directories and output a list telling what must be changed in the two files to bring them into agreement. The list format is described in diff(1).
-s: Suppress messages about identical files.
-wn: Change the width of the output line to n columns. The default width is 72.

Files

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES/uxdfm: language-specific message file (see LANG on environ(5)).
TMPDIR: temporary directory used by dircmp, /var/tmp by default.
TMPDIR/dc*: temporary files

References

cmp(1), diff(1), pr(1)