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Diff 2 Folders Over SSH

May 19, 2023 — Gregg Szumowski

If you need to do a 'diff' on 2 folders and one of them is remote then you can accomplish that as follows:

$ diff <(ssh username@192.168.1.60 ls -R /home/username/dir1) <(ls -R /home/username/dir2)

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