On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:47 -0400, Danny Yoo wrote:
> >> At first blush it sounds to me like you want rsync, as has been
> >> pointed out. If on of the systems is running an OS that doesn't come
> >> with rsync... I have used http://www.vdesmedt.com/~vds2212/rsync.html
> >> to achieve the same res
On Jun 21, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:51 -0400, Reed O'Brien wrote:
>> On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Richard Querin wrote:
>>
>>> I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type
>>> command that would compare a local directory to a remote one
>> At first blush it sounds to me like you want rsync, as has been
>> pointed out. If on of the systems is running an OS that doesn't come
>> with rsync... I have used http://www.vdesmedt.com/~vds2212/rsync.html
>> to achieve the same result.
>>
>
> When I need to deal with Windows computers, I so
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:51 -0400, Reed O'Brien wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Richard Querin wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type
> > command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to
> > identify the changes in the files within tha
On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Richard Querin wrote:
> I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type
> command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to
> identify the changes in the files within that directory.
>
> I was initially thinking that I would maybe use
It depends what you want to compare. Here we use Git http://git.or.cz/
it is written in python and basically you can have two repositories on
the different machines, and track the changes. Obviously if you make a
change on a file, this change has to be commited before it can be
accounted for. perha
Richard Querin wrote:
> I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type
> command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to
> identify the changes in the files within that directory.
>
> I was initially thinking that I would maybe use the linux diff command
> in c
What are we comparing? Size of files, number of files in a directory, md5sum
of the files, directory size, etc? What about rsync? You can use rsync to
compare directories between a source and destiantion system and just report
differences. For example, comparing /etc directores between two RHEL
I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type
command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to
identify the changes in the files within that directory.
I was initially thinking that I would maybe use the linux diff command
in conjunction with the wget command (
