Tip #536 Comparing local and remote files
Suppose we have to find the differences between local file "/tmp/localfile" and remote file "/tmp/remotefile" located on remote host 123.4.5.6This is how can do it:
$ ssh user@123.4.5.6 "cat /tmp/remotefile" | diff - /tmp/localfile
And using vimdiff:
$ vimdiff scp://user@123.4.5.6//tmp/remotefile /tmp/localfile
(of course we would need ssh to work using public key authentication so that we can do remote commands execution without being prompted for passwords).
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