Directory transfer oddness..

Alan kplug at thebucks.net
Mon Jun 6 13:29:08 PDT 2005


Todd Walton wrote:

> On 6/6/05, Alan <kplug at thebucks.net> wrote:
> 
>>So I figured something didn't copy, but:
>>sprocket:~/Maildir$ find | wc -l
>>   83123
>>
>>doc:~/Maildir$ find | wc -l
>>   83123
> 
> 
> I would use cmp for this task.  If cmp finds no difference, and you
> can open mails with your mail program, you're undoubtedly safe
> deleting the old maildir.
> 
> -todd
> 
> 

Hmm...I considered using diff on the directories, but I couldn't work 
out anyway to make it go across two machines.
(Though, on typing this, I suppose I could smbmount one of the machines.)

-ajb



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