Re: Error in diff reporting

[Paul Eggert]

Marty <address@hidden> writes:

> diff -rq /mnt/hda3/ /  2>>/dev/null |egrep -v 'fifo|socket|special'
>
> The output seems to confirm my expectation, except for the following
> lines:
>
> Only in /mnt/hda3: backup-diffs.txt
> Only in /mnt/hda3: bin
> ...
>
> This seems to indicate that the / directory contains no files or
> subdirectories,

No, it indicates that /mnt/hda3 (a subdirectory of "/") contains a
bunch of stuff that /mnt/hda3//mnt/hda3 (a subdirectory of
"/mnt/hda3/") does not.  Which is probably true for your host.