diff has an option --recursive (-r) to do a comparison between two directories (the files inside them). Is there a way to make diff ignore certain sub-directories (eg: .svn)?
$ diff -r src1/ src2/
Asked
Active
Viewed 4.6k times
111
Sridhar Ratnakumar
- 4,759
- 10
- 43
- 56
2 Answers
141
Add --exclude=".svn" as an option like so:
$ diff -r --exclude=".svn" src1/ src2/
Sebastian Paaske Tørholm
- 4,861
- 3
- 23
- 26
-
7If you want to exclude multiple items just add another --exclude parameter. – JonMR Jul 12 '11 at 16:02
-
20If you don't want to type `--exclude` every time use `-x ".svn"` – acorello Aug 14 '12 at 09:03
-
1--exclude option is also not working on mac os. -x ".svn" works well. – alpert Mar 29 '16 at 11:13
-
`--exclude` works well on macOS 10.15.2, /usr/bin/diff 2.8.1 – Pavel Vlasov Mar 09 '21 at 13:00
