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A naive way of diffing 2 files on seperate servers
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remote_diff.sh
#!/bin/bash
path1=`echo $1 | awk -F, '{print $1}'`/$2
path2=`echo $1 | awk -F, '{print $2}'`/$2
if `curl -Ss $path1 | file - | grep text`; then
diff <(curl -Ss $path1) <(curl -Ss $path2)
else
diff <(curl -Ss $path1 | md5) <(curl -Ss $path2 | md5)
fi
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