[Tutor] how can I compare a local directory or file with a remote one

[Reed O'Brien]

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 the linux diff command
> in conjunction with the wget command (or something similar) to create
> a local copy but that involves downloading files. Is there any way in
> python to do a similar thing but without having to download a copy of
> the remote files/directories?
>
> Any ideas?
>

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.

~r