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I found this question already, which has a lot of good answers, but as far as I can tell none of the programs listed compare only the filenames. What program can I use to compare two directories and list which files only exist in one or other directory?



I would strongly prefer a GUI, but I'm quite capable of using command line if I must.



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I have a lot of files (in the range of 125,000+ per directory), so the tool MUST NOT compare the contents of the files, only the filenames, or it'll take forever.


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I would use a simple method, install the tree command:



sudo apt-get install tree


Run the following commands in a terminal:



tree folderA > folderA.txt

tree folderB > folderB.txt


Then use a GUI diff tool such as meld to compare both listings.


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