diff continue on error

Question

I can't get diff to ignore file system errors and continue the directory comparison.

I run a diff -r on two very similar directories with broken files in it. How can I get a complete comparison, is there another way, diff exits with an Input/output error

Answer 1

you probably can't stop diff exiting (unless you change & recompile the source), but I'd look into using 'find':

find . -type f -exec diff {} ../other/folder/{} \;

The 'find' command here returns a list of filenames and passes them to 'diff' one at a time for comparison. The path of the current file is represented by {}