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PinkElephantsOnParade
PinkElephantsOnParade

Reputation: 6592

diff -r for windows?

To find differences in files between two directory structures I usually run 

diff -r dir1/ dir2/

I'm burdened with Windows - is there any way to do this easily Windows or should I just get Cygwin?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 503

Answers (3)

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 2801

I use a tool called FreeFileSync. As the name implies it's free :) It does a great job of visually comparing directories and does not move any files unless you tell it to sync.

It also has a portable version so you do not need to install it.

FreeFileSync

Upvotes: 1

Stanley
Stanley

Reputation: 1441

if you have windiff you can try:

 windiff -T dir1 dir2

also, you can download the Gnu utils for windows to run to traditional Unix diff (with no Cygwin required)

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Upvotes: 0

PaulProgrammer
PaulProgrammer

Reputation: 17630

Beyond Compare does a pretty good job. It isn't free though (but it is nagware, if I recall).

You can use cygwin or mingw, but these are very slow compared to the unix variants, I believe due to the (possibly intentionally) crippled posix implementation on windows.

Upvotes: 0

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