Pass the output of ls to diff

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Published on 2010-01-27T13:47:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 21:25 UTC
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I have one file that contains a list of files from a server, and a local folder that I compare to that manifest. Obviously, I do 'ls -1 > listing_local' and then diff that file with listing_server.

But is it possible to diff the manifest and the output of ls immediately to the diff command?

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