Subject: Re: Remote directory <-> local directory comparison
From: Brian ThunderEagle (furbs@mail.swjedi.net)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 01:39:57 AKST
PERL:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$file="/var/log/messages";
$size=(stat("".$file.""))[7];
print "size of ".$file." is ".$size." bytes\n";
or directly on the command line
perl -e '$file="/var/log/messages"; $size=(stat("".$file.""))[7]; print "size
of ".$file." is $size bytes\n"'
This will get you the size of a file directly on the system. Getting the size
of the file on a remote though I am not sure. I will have to look into that.
Brian ThunderEagle
- http://www.swjedi.net
- furbs@swjedi.net
- bthundereagle@aidea.org
Quoting Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>:
>
> * Arthur Corliss <arthur@corlissfamily.org> [021218 10:07]:
> > 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.
>
> Howdy Arthur:
>
> FTP or http. Whatever gets the results. However, I've already
> found my error in rebol code. So I'm now getting what I need
> from rebol.
>
> In rebol, I used FTP. BTW: I've been told in the Python
> mailing list that getting file sizes via FTP w/python is
> unreliable. I do believe that both perl and rebol do
> it fine... I just needed some tips.
> - thanks Arthur -
>
> rebol example below:
> >> probe info?
> ftp://login_here:password_here@www.johnsons-web.com/cgi-bin/wmj/WmjSearch.r
> connecting to: www.johnsons-web.com
>
> make object! [
> size: 38546
> date: 17-Dec-2002/22:29
> type: 'file
> ]
>
> Or capture the object and reference the 'size method...
>
> --
> Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
> http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com
> http://www.johnsons-web.com
>
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