[lug] Testing CDs and ISO Images

Dhruva B. Reddy bdhruva at gmx.net
Mon Jun 10 07:32:08 MDT 2002


Just answered my own question.  I was unaware that GNU diff can be used
for both directories and binary files.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:21:42AM -0600, quoth Dhruva B. Reddy:
> I recently burned a data CD and some of the files did not make it on
> there in their entirety, which I did not find out until after I had
> deleted the ISO image and original files from my hard drive (^%&*(%).
> 
> To prevent this from happening again, I am looking for a way to compare
> directory trees, something like 'cmp', but compares whole trees.  Is
> there an easy way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dhruva



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