DIRCMP(1) User Commands DIRCMP(1)
NAME
dircmp - directory comparison
SYNOPSIS
dircmp [
-ds] [
-w n]
dir1 dir2DESCRIPTION
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 Compares 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 Suppresses messages about identical files.
-w n Changes 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.
USAGE
See
largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of
dircmp when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See
environ(7) 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),
attributes(7),
environ(7),
largefile(7) February 1, 1995 DIRCMP(1)
