[ale] diff on 2 directories

[Danny Cox]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:33 -0400, Robert Coggins wrote:
> This isn't as geeky as using diff, but I like Meld.  I has been great
> for me to compare files and directories.  I have used it for very large
> dir trees in the past.  It will also allow you to compare 3 trees.
> 
> http://meld.sourceforge.net/

	This is scarcely more than a "me too", except that Fedora (8 at least)
already has meld in its repository, so "yum install meld" will do the
trick.

> Chris Fowler 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.

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Danny