[wellylug] How to compare two files

[Oliver Lineham]

At 10:00 p.m. 12/10/2005, you wrote:
>...which resides on different machines?
>
>What the easiest way to compare (diff) two files on different machines?
>
>ssh must figure in there somewhere I'd guess?

ssh user at host cat /remote/file | diff - /local/file

"-" tells diff to use stdin instead of a file.  you can also use "-" as the 
second parameter for a diff in the other direction.

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