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diff two directories on two different machines over ssh show only differences
$ ssh user@remote_host 'diff -rq directory1 directory2'
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This command will SSH into the remote_host as the user specified, then it will use the diff command to recursively compare the contents of directory1 and directory2, showing only the differences.
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