[ale] Using diff to see what changed

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri May 13 17:59:45 EDT 2011


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> I want to do something weird.
>
> I want to install a program in wine and do a diff on the tree to see
> what files were updated after the installation.  What would be the best
> way?
>

You'll likely need to do it in steps. First get the dirs that have changes,
then walk the contents for new/changed files, then file changes themselves.

Sounds like a good way to find malware....

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> Chris
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