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Kevin Meredith
Kevin Meredith

Reputation: 41919

Compare File TimeStamps in 2 directories

I've got mirror sites of code @ 2 locations:

testing & operations

They are each just folders with C# projects in them. I want to make sure that testing always has the latest files, i.e. if operations has a more recent version of a file than testing, then output the stale file to a list.

Concrete Example:

testing has 2 files: file1 & file2

operations has 2 files: file2 & file3

operations has a newer file2 than testing, so output "file2" to a new text file.

How can I do this in Unix?

thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 542

Answers (1)

Nemo
Nemo

Reputation: 71555

If your Unix system has rsync, you can combine the --dry-run and --testing options to tell you what you want to know, I think.

rsync --dry-run --update -aH operations/. testing/.

(Note: For your example, this would also show file3, since it exists in operations but not testing...)

Upvotes: 2

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