Subject: Re: Remote directory <-> local directory comparison
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 09:21:53 AKST
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> Howdy:
> Here's one for you perl programmers.
>
> Given a list of files: I'd like to
> 1)Confirm that a copy of any file in the list exists
> both on a remote directory and on my local machine.
> 2)Compare both copies to see if they are of the same size.
> 3)Possible (but not necessarily) run 'diff' against them
>
> I program in rebol and python - (and can understand perl
> enough to get me in trouble) I don't believe rebol can
> do this reliably at all, and I'm not sure that python
> can either, but will post those MLs too.
You don't say what protocol you're using to access the remote machine.
--Arthur Corliss
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