Remote comparison of files/folders on UNIX

[Danny Fang]

HI,

I need to compare files and folders that are located in 2 remote machines.

I did some search and found that rsync and rdist are good in performing differential copies. But all I need now is to simply do a remote comparison of files between 2 remote machines.

Could anyone suggest any methods or share any scripts on performing such a task?

Thanks in advance!
Danny

[Steven Schweda]

Many things are possible, depending on what
sort of network access is possible between
these systems, and exactly what you'd like to
compare.

Given NFS, "diff" should work.

For a slow network connection and large
files, it might pay to collect some kind of
checksum for relevant files on each system,
and then compare those.

A little looking around should find some old
Forum threads with similar requests (some of
which were almost as vague as this one, at
least at the beginning).

[Laurent Menase]

you can do a
cd thedirectory
find . -type f | xargs cksum >filesh1.cksum
same on the second system with filesh2.cksum

then do a diff filesh?.cksum