[plug] Merging two directories

[Paul Dean]

MC(Midnight Commander) has a Compare Directories, and works over std protocols...

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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:48:37 +0800
Ben Keith <bjkeith at gmail.com> wrote:

>If a GUI tool is at all an option then give KDiff a try.
>
>You can run it against directories then look at each file diff individually
>and manage the merge operations manually.
>
>I have used it on SMB mounted remote folders without problem.
>
>HTH,
>
>Ben
>
>On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Gregory Orange <gregory.orange at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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??
>>
>> Personally I'd put together a script using find and diff and 'lt'/'gt'
>> (or whatever the bash/<insert-chosen-shell-or-language> directive is)
>> to move in newer bigger files, delete identical files, and output a
>> list of newer smaller files.
>>
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