Click to viewWhen several people are updating and making copies of the same files, multiple versions easily blossom out of control. Figuring out what's changed, what hasn't and merging it all back ...
I want to compare the files present in two filesystems or directory trees, and to list which files are present in one tree but not in the other. I don't think 'diff -r' can be used to directly compare ...
You often may need to compare one version of a file to an earlier one or check one file against a reference file. Linux provides several tools for doing this ...