dircmp

Directory comparison commandline tool

Usage

usage: dircmp [-h] [--recursive] [--follow-symlinks] [--output OUTPUT] dir_a dir_b

Compare directories based on metadata

positional arguments:
dir_a                 First directory
dir_b                 Second directory

options:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
--recursive, -r       Recurse into subdirectories
--follow-symlinks, -s
                      Follow symlinks
--output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
                      Results output file (JSON format). Useful if many differences are expected

Example invocation: python3 dircomp.py -r ~/first_folder ~/second_folder

Be careful with --follow-symlinks: if you encounter FileNotFoundError, you should remove that option. In any case it will however refuse to follow symlinks which point outside the original search directory.

What is this and why?

Honestly this is just a dirty little script I threw together because I needed a quick way of checking whether two directories are roughly in sync.

No guarantees about reliability/correctness of results.