From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, dave@horsfall.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Be there a "remote diff" utility?
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 00:51:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202405160651.44G6pi8G018059@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2405161623130.15285@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Maybe
diff -u <(ssh host1 cat file1) <(ssh host2 cat file2)
?
That could be put into a shell script that does the approriate
text manipulations on the original $1 and $2.
HTH,
Arnold
Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> Every so often I want to compare files on remote machines, but all I can
> do is to fetch them first (usually into /tmp); I'd like to do something
> like:
>
> rdiff host1:file1 host2:file2
>
> Breathes there such a beast? I see that Penguin/OS has already taken
> "rdiff" which doesn't seem to do what I want.
>
> Think of it as an extension to the Unix philosophy of "Everything looks
> like a file"...
>
> -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-16 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-16 6:34 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-05-16 6:51 ` arnold [this message]
2024-05-16 7:33 ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-16 8:59 ` George Michaelson
2024-05-16 9:01 ` arnold
2024-05-16 17:08 ` ron minnich
2024-05-16 18:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2024-05-16 19:51 ` Marc Donner
2024-05-16 19:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-06-19 23:20 ` Alan D. Salewski
2024-05-16 12:31 Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-16 17:12 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-16 18:12 ` Rich Salz
2024-05-16 18:38 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
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