From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 37482 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2015 11:50:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 37471 invoked by uid 89); 22 Sep 2015 11:50:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:50:47 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeM5s-0002lS-3H for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:50:44 +0200 Received: from 206-47-30-192.dsl.ncf.ca ([206.47.30.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:50:44 +0200 Received: from Paul.Domaskis by 206-47-30-192.dsl.ncf.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:50:44 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Paul Subject: workflow idiom to compare zip/tgz with folder subtree Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:50:00 -0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00349.txt.bz2 I currently take snapshots of selected portions of a folder subtree using zip files. Sometimes, I use command-line zip, but other times I'll use the Windows Compressed Zip folder. I find myself frequently unzipping the snapshots into temp folders just so that I can use the unix diff utility (via cygwin) to see what the differences are with the live folder tree. Is there a way to take regular snapshots that I can compare with the live folder subtree without having to unpack it? I'm not married to zip. However, tar doesn't quite do it. My vague recollection is that it will check that the files in a tgz snapshot matches what is in the live folder subtree, but it won't report what is in the live folder subtree which isn't in the tgz snapshot. I've also posted this to: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/workflow-idiom-to-compare-ziptgz-with-folder/631c39ae-609d-402f-88ba-2681a836f11e?tm=1442922342392 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple