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Jan 052010
 

How to find the differences between two files over SSH

Answer:

If the files you want to compare are on different machines, you can combine ssh and diff for the comparsion.

E.g.

ssh [email protected] "cat /tmp/foo.txt" | diff - /tmp/bar.txt

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