Compare files from two directories, ignoring sub-directories structure

Feature
1

As a user i’d like to be able to compare two directories/backups, ignoring the internal sub directory structure.

e.g.
/DirectoryX/subX/file1.txt

/DirectoryY/subY/subZ/file1.txt
/DirectoryY/subY/subZ/file2.txt

==> hash all the files and compare them ignoring the folder structure so that
file1.txt == file1.txt
and file2 was found in DirectoryY but not in DirectoryX

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rclone doesn’t have direct support for that…

You could use rclone md5sum (or whatever hash the remote supports) then do a bit of sort and diff - that should work.

so something like

diff <(rclone md5sum /DirectoryX/ | sort) <(rclone md5sum /DirectoryY/ | sort)
3

thanks. great idea. Does it seem like a good feature request? something that people would like to see as a part of rclone?

4

I think it is probably a bit niche - I don’t think I’ve heard any other requests for a similar system.

5

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