Compare two folders on two different servers

[kzn]

Hi

I am using Rsync to replicate folders from one server to another. I want to run a script that will quickly compare the two. All I need it to do is list the files that are not the same, I dont need a deep scan all I want it do is compare the size of the two files ... nothing else.

locally on one server I have compared two folders using the following command

diff -q folder1 folder2

How can I make it compare folder1 on server 172.16.0.55 at location A to folder2 on server 10.0.0.2 at location B?

Any help appreciated.

Many thanks,

 

[Annihilannic]

Something quick and dirty like this perhaps:

ssh 172.16.0.55 'cd /folder1 ; find . -type f | xargs ls -ld | awk "{print \$5,\$9}" | sort -k 2,2' > first
ssh 10.0.0.2 'cd /folder2 ; find . -type f | xargs ls -ld | awk "{print \$5,\$9}" | sort -k 2,2' > second
diff first second

Note that I'm assuming no spaces in filenames; you'd need to make it a little smarter to handle that.

Annihilannic.