how to compare two directories residing in two different servers

prasenjit.patra · 09-28-2009, 01:39 PM

Hi,

I have one requirement like...I need to write a shell script which will compare two directories residing in two different servers (server A and server B) and list out the discrepancies if found any. Ideally the file names, counts, size should be same for the directory in two servers. So the script should find out the discrepancies if any. Could anyone please help me?

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Prasenjit

AlucardZero · 09-28-2009, 02:59 PM

Use:
ls -l
ssh
diff

edenCC · 09-28-2009, 09:20 PM

I would create two file lists with md5sum fingerprint, then sort it, then compare the two files.