You can use diff command to compare the contents of directories. To compare directories instead of files pass directory path instead of file path in diff command.
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## compare contents of directories mkdir mydir{1,2} ## create some files and directories echo "hello" > mydir1/myfile1 echo "world" > mydir2/myfile2 echo "hello" > mydir2/myfile1 diff mydir1/ mydir2/ ## compare the contents of directories ## returns ## Only in mydir2/: myfile2 ## Only in mydir2/: myfile3 diff mydir1/myfile1 mydir2/myfile2 ## compare the contents of files ## returns ## 1c1 ## < hello ## --- ## > world rm -r my* |