Diff files present in two different directories

Question

I have two directories with the same list of files. I need to compare all the files present in both the directories using the diff command. Is there a simple co

Answer 1

If you specifically don't want to compare contents of files and only check which one are not present in both of the directories, you can compare lists of files, generated by another command.

diff <(find DIR1 -printf '%P\n' | sort) <(find DIR2 -printf '%P\n' | sort) | grep '^[<>]'

-printf '%P\n' tells find to not prefix output paths with the root directory.

I've also added sort to make sure the order of files will be the same in both calls of find.

The grep at the end removes information about identical input lines.