diffing and uniqing directories

[rustom]

On Apr 27, 11:29 pm, "telus news" <thinkof... at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Just so happens that I am partially finished a gui file backup app. I have
> many backup CDs and I wanted to consolidate them. You know, all image files
> in one dir, all install files in another dir, etc. My app scans the input
> dir tree and displays all file extensions that it finds. You can then remove
> any extensions that you don't want backed-up, and you can toggle to exclude
> the listed extensions. It also calculates min/max file sizes that you can
> adjust.
I guess what I am looking for is a merge app more than a backup app.
>
> Then the next page allows you to adjust the sub-dir depth with a slider,
> which displays the total number of files and total amount of memory they
> will take, for each sub-dir depth. You can also choose to enable versioning,
> whether or not to put all files into one dir or create a dir for each file
> type (extension), whether or not to actually backup the files, to write all
> input pathnames and/or output pathnames to a file. Of course, it won't
> backup a dir tree as a copy, it can only flatten a dir tree,
That wont do for me.
> so if you
> backup a development source dir, all files will get put into the same dir
> and that wouldn't be good.
>
> I've also used py2exe to make it a drag-n-drop install. What do you think?
Im working (mostly) on linux