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Re: Bug#286938: diff: could support comparison among remote files (fwd)


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Bug#286938: diff: could support comparison among remote files (fwd)
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:09:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Santiago Vila <address@hidden> writes:

> It will be nice to be able to compare through a remote shell with a 
> sintax typical to ssh or rsync, something like
>
>              diff file.txt mycomputer.mynet.com:/tmp/file.txt
>
> to avoid using
>              ssh mycomp.mynet.com cat /tmp/file.txt | diff file.txt -

With GNU bash:

    diff file.txt <(ssh mycomp.mynet.com cat /tmp/file.txt)

Andreas.

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