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How can I compare a tar file (already compressed) of the original folder with the original folder?
First I created archive file using
tar -kzcvf directory_name.zip directory_name Then I tried to compare using
tar -diff -vf directory_name.zip directory_name But it didn't work.
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execute a tar tvf to list the contents of each file and store the outputs in two different files. then, slice out everything besides the filename and size columns. Preferably sort the two files too. Then, just do a file diff between the two lists.
--compare (-d) is more handy for that.
tar --compare --file=archive-file.tar works if archive-file.tar is in the directory it was created. To compare archive-file.tar against a remote target (eg if you have moved archive-file.tar to /some/where/) use the -C parameter:
tar --compare --file=archive-file.tar -C /some/where/ If you want to see tar working, use -v without -v only errors (missing files/folders) are reported.
Tipp: This works with compressed tar.bz/ tar.gz archives, too.
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