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Re: Bug#286938: diff: could support comparison among remote files (fwd)
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#286938: diff: could support comparison among remote files (fwd) |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:49:31 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
Patricio Rojo wrote:
> I actually agree with you now... It was just that because of the pretty
> standard use of that syntax in many programs I thought that there was
> some friendly library that could have taken care of opening the right
> input or output data stream.
Libraries are part of the program. Even as a library used by the
program it "bloats" it.
> Maybe now a version of the script that Bob indicates can be included in
> the diff package as rdiff.sh or something like it? I don't know whether
> that will require too much extra and unnecessary maintenance work,
> though.
Personally, I would not include it. Better as a personal preference
than as something that would be good for the general population. But
thanks for the vote of confidence in my quick hack anyway.
> Anyways, thanks for your help and for considering my propositions:)...
I like Andreas's comment:
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> diff file.txt <(ssh mycomp.mynet.com cat /tmp/file.txt)
That allows URLs to be used when used with wget and other 'net aware
programs. Consider the following expansion on the above idea.
diff file.txt <(wget -O- http://mycomp.mynet.com/file.txt)
Run any command with generic URLs!
Bob