Viewing Remote Files Differences

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 15:02:46 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:02 PM, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there any good visual tools to display differences in files on two
> remote machines. I tried rsync with dry run option
> but it doesn't give what I am looking for.
>
> Sometimes, I forget which site has the latest copy and I want to see the
> difference before syncing the files.

Not sure what 'visual' means in this case, but I'd use
==> vimdiff scp://machine1//etc/network/interfaces
scp://machine2//etc/network/interfaces
and get a clear view of the differences.

Brian
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