diff -r ignore symbolic links
Ben Elliston
bje at redhat.com
Fri Feb 14 13:45:31 EST 2003
>>>>> "Kim" == Kim Holburn <kim.holburn=FCV4sgi5zeUQrrorzV6ljw at public.gmane.org> writes:
Kim> I need to diff 2 directories but I want diff not to follow
Kim> symbolic links. How would I do that?
Bad news, I'm afraid. Read the Info page for diff and, in particular,
the node "Special Files" under the node "Shortcomings". ;-(
Perhaps you'd be better off generating a file list using find(1) and
then piping that to xargs.
Ben
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