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password problem when feeding a remote file into diff
When I want to compare a local file with a remote file, any of these usually works:
$ ssh remote cat file | diff file -
$ diff file <(ssh remote cat file)
However, sometimes (especially when the ...
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Pipe diff file into patch?
Is there a way to pipe the diff output into patch? The -i parameter is for specifying a diff file, but I just want to do it more dynamically, since I will be updating regularly against a directory ...
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Can't pipe into diff?
I wanted to be clever and compare a remote file to a local file without downloading it. I can get the contents of the remote file by
ssh user@remote-host "cat path/file.name"
However, piping that ...
