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
4.5 systems.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Querin</b> <<a href="mailto:rfquerin@gmail.com">rfquerin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type<br>command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to<br>identify the changes in the files within that directory.<br><br>I was initially thinking that I would maybe use the linux diff command
<br>in conjunction with the wget command (or something similar) to create<br>a local copy but that involves downloading files. Is there any way in<br>python to do a similar thing but without having to download a copy of<br>
the remote files/directories?<br><br>Any ideas?<br>_______________________________________________<br>Tutor maillist - <a href="mailto:Tutor@python.org">Tutor@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor">
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