Shell Programming and Scripting

Ah I get it, sorry I missed you were trying to diff the contents of the directories.

I have not seen the <(..) syntax before, is this peculiar to 93? I use 88 at work so would like to know if this works on that version.

It is called process substitution. I took a look at the man pages. Apparently it is a feature of ksh88 too. However, the man pages say:
So might the reason that it is not working on those AIX systems be that /dev/fd is missing?

Thanks

That may be why I haven't seen it. The code I work on has to run on Solaris and AIX.

I will try it anyway

Cheers

Yeah, got a "No such file or directory" error... Least its a little further..

Ran the

Code:

(echo ${.sh.version}) 2>&- || echo ksh88

and it returned ksh88

Also just tried

Code:

diff folderA <$(ssh user@server_name /home/x136873/folderA)

Get the error "diff: two filename arguments required"

Also trying the rsync --dry-run command too..

Code:

rsync -avvc --dry-run -e ssh * user@server_name:/home/folderA/

Almost have this working... having a problem getting the ssh key to work this way tho.. Also getting the message "unexpected EOF in read_timeout" Think this error is more to do with ssh tho..

Not sure where to go from here.. I mean am I tackling the issue from the wrong direction.. Is there some other way of comparing directories that reside on different unix servers another way?