Compare a local and a remote file using 'diff' and process substitution.

I don't think I've posted this one before:

	#compare a local and remote file using diff and process substitution
	diff README.txt <(ssh SOMEREMOTEHOST cat /home/paul/somedir/README.txt)

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I've been doing a lot of moving files around between local and remote servers and have made heavy use of the above idiom. First find the files that need to be manually inspected (rsync -ilvrn <localdir> <remotedir> ) and then use the above diff command to compare them.