Comparing directories on different unix servers - Page 2

Jazmania · #1 (**permalink**) 10-29-2009

Is it possible to use the diff command to compare two directories on different Unix (AIX) servers?

We have two regions set up and we want to be able to compare if the scripts directory in both regions contain the same files?

I want to figure out if its possible.. Have been messing around by dumping the listing of each dir into separate files and comparing them with diff.. But that doesn't work the way i need it to..

Is there any other command out there that could work?

Thanks,
Jaz

EDIT**

Can something like this work?? I've tried it from the command line but it gives the following error.

ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected

Code:

diff <(ssh server_name 'cd directory_to_compare; find . -type f -exec {} \;| sort -k 2') <(ssh servername2 'cd directory_to_compare; find . -type f -exec {} \;| sort -k 2') >> diff_report.txt

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