AW: diff -r won't recurse

[lemkemch@t-online.de]

On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:50:09 +0200  Andrey Repin wrote:
>> I've got a strange problem: diff -r /d /g won't recurse into the two directories.  /d and /g are the
>> roots of two disks where /g is a clone (disk2vhd) of /d.  ls -R and other tools have no problems
>> to walk the tree.  strace doesn't give me a clue.  Any ideas?
>
>Try /d/ /g/ ?
>Cygdrive automounts are implicit.
>Though, I'm unable to reproduce your case.
>
>$ ls -l /?
>ls: cannot access /?: No such file or directory
>
>$ diff -r /w /x
>Only in /w: $RECYCLE.BIN
>Only in /x: OS2
>Only in /w: ssh-1Pr6UITz
>Only in /w: System Volume Information
>Only in /x: WINNT
>

Yes, that's what I expected.  And Erwin Waterlander suggested:
> there are no differences
> ;)

I wish it were so.  Nevertheless (-s lists identical files):
orion> diff -q -r -s /d/Program\ Files /g/Program\ Files
orion> 

But
orion> ls /d/Program\ Files /g/Program\ Files
/d/Program Files:
7-Zip                                        GPS-Track-Analyse-6                                PlotSoft
... snipped.

/g/Program Files:
7-Zip                                        GPS-Track-Analyse-6                                PlotSoft
... more snipped.

I am sure this got something to do with this being on a cloned disk running in a XP 
virtual machine (vmplayer on Win 8,1).


Thanks,
Michael

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and following the instructions I received as a result wasn't successful.

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