DIRCMP(1) User Commands DIRCMP(1)
NAME
dircmp - directory comparison
SYNOPSIS
dircmp [
-ds] [
-w n]
dir1 dir2DESCRIPTION
The
dircmp command 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.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d Compares 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 Suppresses messages about identical files.
-w n Changes the width of the output line to
n characters. The default
width is
72.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
dir1 dir2 A path name of a directory to be compared.
USAGE
See
largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of
dircmp when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See
environ(7) for descriptions of the following environment variables
that affect the execution of
dircmp:
LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE,
LC_MESSAGES,
and
NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred. (Differences in directory contents are not
considered errors.)
SEE ALSO
cmp(1),
diff(1),
attributes(7),
environ(7),
largefile(7) February 1, 1995
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