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Listing filenames present in one directory that dont exist in another:

ls -w 1 /path1 | grep -vxFf <(ls -w 1 /path2)

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Daniel Dương 2y ago 💬 1

printf "%s\n" /path1/* /path2/* | xargs -L 1 basename | sort | uniq -u

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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

Interesting to get files not present in both directions as that too can be useful.

The piping to xargs is not as performant but I like having alternate means