Posted by: Dakusan
« on: September 28, 2009, 05:32:32 am »Originally posted on: 08/23/09
Since my FileSync Project is still a long way to being where I want it to be and is in a state that makes it annoying to use, I decided to throw together a script that essentially emulates the primary functions of it for what I need. I find it a bit annoying that I’ve never been able to find another good project that does exactly what I want for quick syncing of files over networks 
. I used to think rsync would be a good solution for it but it’s very... quirky and unstable in certain ways. Not as flexible as I would like. Alas.
Anywho, this PHP script takes 2 file lists and gives you back their differences in a directory tree view. Each file has a data string after it used to tell if the files are different. The data string can be anything you want, but will usually probably be a timestamp or data checksum. The tree view lets you hide files/directories depending on whether each item is only on one side, different, or the same. An example is as follows (List1, List2):
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Example Output:
Legend:
- Differences:
- No differences detected
- File is different, or directory contains differences
- File is only found on left side, when this happens to a directory, it is only counted as 1 difference
- File is only found on right side, when this happens to a directory, it is only counted as 1 difference
- Type:
- This is a directory with sub items. After the directory name, it lists as info the number of differences over the total number of sub items
- This is a file. If both sides contain the file but are different, it lists as info the different strings
- Info about the file/directory listed in between parenthesis.
Options:Left Side: ./Dir1.txt
Right Side: ./Dir2.txt
Total Differences: 9
Total Items: 13
- DiffDir (1/1)
- Diff.txt (9999-99-99 99:99:99 :: 1111-11-11 11:11:11)
- LeftOnlyDir (1/2)
- Left.txt
- Left2.txt
- PartialDir (3/4)
- Diff.txt (9999-99-99 99:99:99 :: 1111-11-11 11:11:11)
- LeftOnly.txt
- RightOnly.txt
- Same.txt
- RightOnlyDir (1/1)
- Right.txt
- SameDir (0/1)
- Same.txt
- Diff.txt (9999-99-99 99:99:99 :: 1111-11-11 11:11:11)
- LeftOnly.txt
- RightOnly.txt
- Same.txt
Some example bash commands used to create file lists:
- Output all files and their timestamps to “Dir1.txt”: find -type f -printf '%P\t%T+\n' > Dir1.txt
- Output all files and their md5sums to “Dir1.txt”: find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | perl -pe 's/^(.*?) (.*)$/$2\t$1/g' > Dir1.txt
