Handy Hack: Comparing two directory trees on Solaris 8

After some information from jim mcnamara I developed a script to compare two directory trees. I needed something that worked on Solaris 8 so it uses basic UNIX tools (and dircmp was not very useful). If you are using a more modern system then try this

#!/bin/ksh

#  Compare 2 directories for differences (e.g. current release and new release)

CURRENT=$1 ; shift
NEW=$1; shift

CURRENTDIFFFILE=/tmp/$(echo $CURRENT | sed -e 's/[/.][/.]*/_/g')
NEWDIFFFILE=/tmp/$(echo $NEW | sed -e 's/[/.][/.]*/_/g')

# File pattens not to be included in compare
cat << 'EOF' > /tmp/patternFile
^.git/
^.*\.log
^logs/.*
^.*\.tmp
^.*\.err
EOF

for i in $CURRENT $NEW ; do
	cd $i
	# cut removed ./ that find puts at start of path name
	find . -type f -print |cut -b3- |egrep -v -f /tmp/patternFile | sort > /tmp/$(echo $i | sed -e 's/[/.][/.]*/_/g')
	cd -
done

echo New files
comm -13  $CURRENTDIFFFILE $NEWDIFFFILE

echo
echo Deleted files
comm -23  $CURRENTDIFFFILE $NEWDIFFFILE

echo
echo files that are different
# xargs has limitations so must pipe into a second shell
comm -12  $CURRENTDIFFFILE $NEWDIFFFILE | xargs -i echo cmp -s \"$CURRENT/{}\" \"$NEW/{}\" \|\|  echo {} changed | sh