[ale] diff on 2 directories

Robert Coggins ale at cogginsnet.com
Tue May 20 14:48:10 EDT 2008


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/

Robert

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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