Manual page for dircmp(1)
dircmp - directory comparison
SYNOPSIS
dircmp
[
-ds
] [
-w n
]
dir1 dir2
AVAILABILITY
SUNWesu
DESCRIPTION
The
dircmp
command examines
dir1
and
dir2
and generates various tabulated information
about the contents of the directories. Listings
of files that are unique to each directory are generated
for all the options.
If no option is entered,
a list is output indicating whether the
file names common to both directories
have the same contents.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
- -d
-
Compare the contents of files with the same name in
both directories and output a list telling what must
be changed in the two files to bring them into agreement.
The list format is described in
diff.1
- -s
-
Suppress messages about identical files.
- -w n
-
Change the width of the output line to
n
characters.
The default width is
72.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
- dir1
-
- dir2
-
A path name of a directory to be compared.
ENVIRONMENT
See
environ.5
for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the
execution of
dircmp:
LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE,
LC_MESSAGES,
and
NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
- 0
-
Successful completion.
- >0
-
An error occurred.
(differences in directory contents are not considered errors)
SEE ALSO
cmp.1
diff.1
environ.5
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
