On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:51 -0400, Reed O'Brien wrote: > On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Richard Querin wrote: > > > I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type > > command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to > > identify the changes in the files within that directory. > > > > I was initially thinking that I would maybe use the linux diff command > > in conjunction with the wget command (or something similar) to create > > a local copy but that involves downloading files. Is there any way in > > python to do a similar thing but without having to download a copy of > > the remote files/directories? > > > > Any ideas? > > > > At first blush it sounds to me like you want rsync, as has been > pointed out. If on of the systems is running an OS that doesn't come > with rsync... I have used http://www.vdesmedt.com/~vds2212/rsync.html > to achieve the same result. >
I downloaded the file from the web site, but was disappointed to see that there appears to be no support for any network transport. It simply operates on locally mounted directories. I only did a cursory scan of the source code. Did I miss something? Certainly the program provides useful example code for file comparisons, but it does not appear to directly support any kind of remote processing. When I need to deal with Windows computers, I sorely feel the lack of ssh, rsync, and sshfs. > ~r > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
