A diff command with the side by side feature can be added to Solaris systems via the diffutils package (diffutils-2.8.1-sol10-sparc-local.gz).

$ diff home.html index.html $ The only drawbacks to diff are that it can only compare two files at a time, and you have to identify the files to compare. Some commands we will look at in this post ...

We do this with the help of the three commands SSH, cat and diff, all of which should be installed on your Linux and macOS machines by default. Let me show you how it’s done.