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Sure, but my example was just that and I actually use /identical$/ as the pattern. Sorry for the typo. And I use this "historic" one liner only when I know abo
by jcynix 1y ago
Sure, but my example was just that and I actually use /identical$/ as the pattern. Sorry for the typo.
And I use this "historic" one liner only when I know about the contents of both directories. As soon as I need a "safer" solution I use a Perl script and pattern matching, as I said.
- poke646 1y agoIn this case the Perl one-liner would be conceptually identical, the same length, but more performant (no calling out to rm): diff -rs a/ b/ | perl -ane '/identical$/ && unlink $F[3]'