[plug] Merging two directories

Andrew Howell andrew at it.net.au
Mon Oct 12 14:43:14 WST 2009


Unison would be reasonable for this.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

2009/10/12 Shanon Loughton <autobot at iinet.net.au>:
> HI all
>
> I need to merge two directories, which are fairly large ~4GB each.
>
> A copy of the original dir (dir2) was taken two weeks from the
> original (dir1) and altered over that time.  Need to merge dir2 back
> into dir1.  I can find differences with diff or find.
> Some files are newer and *smaller* which are suspect and need to be
> manually analysed, thus either flagged or left alone by the tool.
>
> Anyone know a good tool I could use??
>
> thanks
> Shanon
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