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Hi Experts,

I need to have a shell script to compare two directories and if new file is created in Dir1 it should be copied to Dir2.

can some one help me, i am not aware of scripting

Thanks & Regards
Suresh

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In the purple band at the top of the page is a search box. Type into that search box compare two directories and press the [search] button. This problem has already been answered more than a few times on DaniWeb

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You need to set the dir path if the directories are in different location. This is a simple way of doing the copy work.

#!/bin/sh
diff d1 d2 | awk -F: '{print $2}'|while read a 
do
cp -r d1/$a d2
done
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When the purple band at the top of the page in the search box. Type in this field of research to compare two directories and press. This problem has already been answered more than a couple of times DaniWeb.

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