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Linux is most certainly not my strong suit so, my apologies if this is a basic question however, I need to compare the entire file structure (directories and physical files) between a production server and a development server.  Preferably I would like to be able to export this to something like a csv so that I can compare the two.
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If you need only compare the name of files, maybe you can use this solution:

Production server:
# find /directory_to_compare > production_list.txt

Development server:
# find /directory_to_compare > development_list.txt

After this, you can compare both files (*_list.txt) with a properly tool.

In command line, can be "diff" (the output is not very friendly). In window environment, you have a lot of options...
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Exported to text files and then used DiffCompare on a windows box to generate an Excel report with the differences.