HP UX Operating Systems 211

dircmp(1)

NAME

dircmp - directory comparison

SYNOPSIS

dircmp [-d][-s][-wn] dir1 dir2

DESCRIPTION

dircmp examines dir1 and dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories. Sorted listings of ®les that are unique to each directory are generated for all the options. If no option is entered, a sorted list is output indicating whether the ®lenames common to both directories have the same contents.

-dCompare the contents of ®les with the same name in both directories and output a list telling what must be changed in the two ®les to bring them into agreement. The list format is described in diff(1).

-sSuppress messages about identical ®les.

-wnChange the width of the output line to n characters. The default width is 72.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LC_COLLATE determines the order in which the output is sorted.

If LC_COLLATE is not speci®ed in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of LANG is used as a default. If LANG is not speci®ed or is set to the empty string, a default of ``C'' (see lang(5)) is used instead of LANG. If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, dircmp behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to ``C'' (see environ(5)).

International Code Set Support

Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

EXAMPLES

Compare the two directories slate and sleet and produce a list of changes that would make the directories identical:

dircmp -d slate sleet

WARNINGS

This command is likely to be withdrawn from X/Open standards. Applications using this command might not be portable to other vendors' systems. As an alternative diff -Ris recommended.