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How to find the differences between two files over SSH

How to find the differences between two files over SSH

Answer:

If the files you want to compare are on different machines, you can combine ssh and diff for the comparsion.

E.g.

ssh john@192.168.11.5 "cat /tmp/foo.txt" | diff - /tmp/bar.txt

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