Feature request/inquiry: diff

[bpj (Benct Philip Jonsson)]

Currently when I want to compare the content of a
local and a remote file I usually do

cd local/path/to/foo
rclone copy remote:path/to/foo diff
vimdiff foo diff/foo

which works and allows me to just do

mv diff/foo .

if I want to "keep" the remote version locally, but it's
still kind of a kludge. For one thing I usually forget to
remove diff/foo if I don't want to keep it. I wish I could just say

rclone diff local/path/to/foo remote:path/to/foo

and get a regular diff printed to stdout. Or am I missing
something? Note that I'm on Termux/Android half the time,
which doesn't have any /tmp directory.

[bpj (Benct Philip Jonsson)]

I just found out how to create a virtual /tmp directory on Termux X:-|, which at least sort of solves the issue for me. Feel free to close this topic if you feel the suggested feature is not good/unnecessary/out of scope.

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

perhaps this can help you

Sync but check for last modifide date

Hello, is it possible to Sync Rclone and keep the files that are last modifide? For example example 1) Host: Changes File A Remote: Adds File B in that case i would like both Files to still be there, just like GIT would do it example 2) Remote: has a Folder X that HOST doesnt have Host: has some new Files/Folders Remote doesnt have if i sync on HOST i want to download the Folder X and not override / delete it and i want to upload all my new files to remote sorry for my bad english so…

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@bpj

rclone diff local/path/to/foo remote:path/to/foo

You could use a bit of bash magic like this

diff local/path/to/foo <(rclone cat remote:path/to/foo)

that should work...

[bpj (Benct Philip Jonsson)]

@ncw *facepalm* Should have thought of that!