diffing and uniqing directories

[Rustom Mody]

Over years Ive collected tgz's of my directories. I would like to diff
and uniq them

Now I guess it would be quite simple to write a script that does a
walk or find through a pair of directory trees, makes a SHA1 of each
file and then sorts out the files whose SHA1s are the same/different.
What is more difficult for me to do is to write a visual/gui tool to
help me do this.

I would guess that someone in the python world must have already done
it [The alternative is to use some of the tools that come with version
control systems like git. But if I knew more about that option I would
not be stuck with tgzs in the first place ;-)]

So if there is such software known please let me know.

PS Also with the spam flood that has hit the python list I dont know
if this mail is being read at all or Ive fallen off the list!

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:35:29 -0700, rustom wrote:

On Apr 27, 12:31Â*am, [e-mail] wrote:

>On Apr 26, 1:14Â*pm, "Rustom Mody" <[e-mail]:
[…]

If this is an answer to my question I dont understand it!

castironpi is either a bot or trolling. Just ignore its posts.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[castironpi]

On Apr 27, 2:37*am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[e-mail]:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:35:29 -0700, rustom wrote:

On Apr 27, 12:31*am, [e-mail] wrote:

On Apr 26, 1:14*pm, "Rustom Mody" <[e-mail]:
[…]

If this is an answer to my question I dont understand it!

castironpi is either a bot or trolling. *Just ignore its posts.

Ciao,
* * * * Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

I am a bot or trolling. Bots and bot detectors were the first forms
of internet life, you know.

[telus news]

Just so happens that I am partially finished a gui file backup app. I have
many backup CDs and I wanted to consolidate them. You know, all image files
in one dir, all install files in another dir, etc. My app scans the input
dir tree and displays all file extensions that it finds. You can then remove
any extensions that you don't want backed-up, and you can toggle to exclude
the listed extensions. It also calculates min/max file sizes that you can
adjust.

Then the next page allows you to adjust the sub-dir depth with a slider,
which displays the total number of files and total amount of memory they
will take, for each sub-dir depth. You can also choose to enable versioning,
whether or not to put all files into one dir or create a dir for each file
type (extension), whether or not to actually backup the files, to write all
input pathnames and/or output pathnames to a file. Of course, it won't
backup a dir tree as a copy, it can only flatten a dir tree, so if you
backup a development source dir, all files will get put into the same dir
and that wouldn't be good.

I've also used py2exe to make it a drag-n-drop install. What do you think?
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On Apr 27, 2:37 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[e-mail]:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:35:29 -0700, rustom wrote:

On Apr 27, 12:31 am, [e-mail] wrote:

On Apr 26, 1:14 pm, "Rustom Mody" <[e-mail]:
[…]

If this is an answer to my question I dont understand it!

castironpi is either a bot or trolling. Just ignore its posts.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

I am a bot or trolling. Bots and bot detectors were the first forms
of internet life, you know.

[rustom]

On Apr 27, 11:29*pm, "telus news" <[e-mail]:

Just so happens that I am partially finished a gui file backup app. I have
many backup CDs and I wanted to consolidate them. You know, all image files
in one dir, all install files in another dir, etc. My app scans the input
dir tree and displays all file extensions that it finds. You can then remove
any extensions that you don't want backed-up, and you can toggle to exclude
the listed extensions. It also calculates min/max file sizes that you can
adjust.

I guess what I am looking for is a merge app more than a backup app.

>
Then the next page allows you to adjust the sub-dir depth with a slider,
which displays the total number of files and total amount of memory they
will take, for each sub-dir depth. You can also choose to enable versioning,
whether or not to put all files into one dir or create a dir for each file
type (extension), whether or not to actually backup the files, to write all
input pathnames and/or output pathnames to a file. Of course, it won't
backup a dir tree as a copy, it can only flatten a dir tree,

That wont do for me.

so if you
backup a development source dir, all files will get put into the same dir
and that wouldn't be good.

I've also used py2exe to make it a drag-n-drop install. What do you think?

Im working (mostly) on linux

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:44:17 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:

Over years Ive collected tgz's of my directories. I would like to diff
and uniq them

Now I guess it would be quite simple to write a script that does a walk
or find through a pair of directory trees, makes a SHA1 of each file and
then sorts out the files whose SHA1s are the same/different. What is
more difficult for me to do is to write a visual/gui tool to help me do
this.

I would guess that someone in the python world must have already done it
[The alternative is to use some of the tools that come with version
control systems like git. But if I knew more about that option I would
not be stuck with tgzs in the first place ;-)]

So if there is such software known please let me know.

PS Also with the spam flood that has hit the python list I dont know if
this mail is being read at all or Ive fallen off the list!

It doesn't have a GUI, but here's a python program I wrote for dividing
large collections of files up into identical groups:

http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strom...e-classes.html

[castironpi]

On May 11, 2:44*pm, Dan Stromberg <[e-mail]:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:44:17 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:

Over years Ive collected tgz's of my directories. I would like to diff
and uniq them

Now I guess it would be quite simple to write a script that does a walk
or find through a pair of directory trees, makes a SHA1 of each file and
then sorts out the files whose SHA1s are the same/different. What is
more difficult for me to do is to write a visual/gui tool to help me do
this.

I would guess that someone in the python world must have already done it
[The alternative is to use some of the tools that come with version
control systems like git. But if I knew more about that option I would
not be stuck with tgzs in the first place ;-)]

So if there is such software known please let me know.

PS Also with the spam flood that has hit the python list I dont know if
this mail is being read at all or Ive fallen off the list!

It doesn't have a GUI, but here's a python program I wrote for dividing
large collections of files up into identical groups:

http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strom...-classes.html- Hide quoted text -

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