User Commands                                           dircmp(1)



NAME
     dircmp - directory comparison

SYNOPSIS
     dircmp [-ds] [-w n] dir1 dir2


DESCRIPTION
     The dircmp command examines  dir1  and  dir2  and  generates
     various  tabulated  information  about  the  contents of the
     directories. Listings of  files  that  are  unique  to  each
     directory are generated for all the options. If no option is
     entered, a list is output indicating whether the file  names
     common to both directories have the same contents.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

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


     -s      Suppresses messages about identical files.


     -w n    Changes the width of the output line  to  n  charac-
             ters. The default width is  72.


OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:

     dir1    A path name of a directory to be compared.
     dir2

USAGE
     See largefile(5) for the  description  of  the  behavior  of
     dircmp  when  encountering  files greater than or equal to 2
     Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
     variables  that  affect the execution of dircmp: LCOLATE,
     LCTYPE, LCMESAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0     Successful completion.




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     >0    An error occurred. (Differences in directory  contents
           are not considered errors.)


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWesu                     
    


SEE ALSO
     cmp(1), diff(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5)




































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