Help with diff command

Ok heres my situation
I have 2 operating systems on my box. Slackware 10 and Windows XP Pro.
Pro was installed first and I had just recently installed Slackware

When installing Slackware I have my windows partion mounted as /fat-c (although its nfts). And its read-only.

Problem: I have my up-to-date music folder on the /fat-c and my not so up date Music folder in my /home directory on Slackware. I want to be abe to run a command that compares the two folders, finds differences and copies the differences into the slackware folder.

I want to use diff and pipe it into cp or vise versa.
I tried
cp -r |diff Music1 Music2| cut -d: f1

But it didnt work. Any suggestions?

Hi

Interesting little project - file synchronisation tool with diff :)
I like such things, so I did something...

Code:

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diff -r first second  |awk '{if ($1=="Only"){source=$3;sub(/:/,"",source);target=source;
if ($3~/^first/) {sub(/first/,"second",target);print "cp -r "source"/"$4" "target} else
if ($3 ~ /^second/) {sub(/second/,"first",target);print  "cp -r "source"/"$4" "target}}}' |sh

(all on one line)

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replace all occurances of "first" and "second" with you folder names.
If you want to see what it does without having it doing it,
remove the "|sh" at the end :) (recommended!). And of course,
it may not work correctly in some cases...


Maybe it is of advantage to use the standard tools, like rsync, unison...Have a look
at this list[1]. On windows, I like Foldermatch[2].

Cheers

[1] http://linas.org/linux/, Data Mirroring, Replication and File Synchronization
[2] http://www.foldermatch.com/

Thanks I'll try it out :)

Quote:

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Originally posted here by aura2
Thanks I'll try it out :)

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