diff with files in folders/directories

[Curtor]

Hello everyone

I have a folder and a backup of it from earlier, and I want to compare them, as well as the individual files in them.

Now, if I just do

diff -r folder1/ folder2/

I get a list of files that are in one and not the other.

I want the actual difference between each and every file in each folder and itś subdirectories that are named the same in both of them. Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Curtor]

*Does a little bit more research*

So, if files exist in one and not the other folder, diff will return just just those files (as stated in previous post)

This can be overridden by using the -N flag which tells diff to treat absent files as empty. Therefore, anything in any of the files listed before will all be a difference that is output.

Problem solved!

diff -r -N folder1/ folder2/