Question

The question emerged my original question here.

I try to find the common elements between the outputs of the two find-commands with a find-command. How can I get the command working?

find `find ~/bin/FilesDvorak/.* -maxdepth 0` -and `find ~/.PAST_RC_files/.*`

Answer 1

Would something like this work instead, rather than reinvent the wheel?

diff -qrs ~/bin/FilesDvorak/ ~/.PAST_RC_files/ | grep -P "are identical|differ"

You can play around with the grep to get the files present only in one of the dirs, etc.

diff

• -q –brief Output only whether files differ.
• -r –recursive Recursively compare any subdirectories found.
• -s –report-identical-files Report when two files are the same.

grep

• -P: Perl style regex. You can probably do away just fine without it though, I usually add it automatically.