How to diff file names in two directories (without writing to intermediate files)?

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I am trying to do something along the lines of: But that doesn't work for obvious reasons. Is there a better way of achieving this (in 1 line), than this? Thanks

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diff `ls -1a ./dir1` `ls -1a ./dir2`

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You were close. In bash you want process substitution, not command substitution:

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