[ale] diff on 2 directories

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Are there any good tools to do a diff on two directory trees?  I'm doing
> an upgrade and there are many perl programs spread throughout and I want
> to see the differences.  I've used the diff program before but these
> trees are big and there will be a lot of noise.  There are binary files
> as well as text files.

diff -r  /home/jimpop /home/cfowler

-Jim P.