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. ~r _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
