Viewing Remote Files Differences

[p.echols at comcast.net]

----- "MirJafar Ali" <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Brian McKee < brian.mckee at gmail.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Brian McKee < brian.mckee at gmail.com >
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:02 PM, MirJafar Ali < mirjafarali at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> >> Are there any good visual tools to display differences in files on
> two
> >> remote machines.
> 
> 
> > Not sure what 'visual' means in this case, but I'd use
> > ==> vimdiff scp://machine1//etc/network/interfaces
> > scp://machine2//etc/network/interfaces
> > and get a clear view of the differences.
> 
> I should have mentioned - This likely would require a full-vim install
> rather than a tiny-vim one to get proper highlighted differences.
> I keep forgetting Ubuntu ships with a crippled version.
> 

SNIP

> > 
> 
> I am little scared now. What is the crippled version ?
> 
> Mir
> 
> 


Nothing to worry about, just that tiny-vim does not have the full feature set of vim.  But if you need the features, then you have to install the full deal.  So if you don't want to try "vimdiff" and 'vim' has been working for you, then forget it.

--PE