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Feb 222011
 

How to diff two remote files over ssh?

Answer:

Assume you have two files on two different machine, how do you do a diff of them?

Simply use the command below:

# diff <(ssh server_1 'cat foo1') <(ssh server_2 'cat foo2')

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