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I'd like to get binary information whether two directories differ or not. I don't want to list different files. Just binary result that can be used in "if" statement. How to do this?

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I would try

 if diff -q DIR1 DIR2

If that is still too verbose

if diff -q DIR1 DIR2 > /dev/null
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  • Ok! With option -r works great – ardabro Jan 13 '17 at 9:11

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