Is there a tool?

[Name Trader]

Is there a tool which can compare a website or part of a website to the files on disk and determine which files are not included in the website or vice versa.

I'd like to run this against one of my own scripts so that I can remove redundant files on the disk.

 

[lothos]

Do you have access to the hosting account? This is trivial to do with a few commands on the command line. If not, you can maybe use wget to mirror the website locally, list the files, run a diff and see what's missing.

 

[Name Trader]

I've found wget and pretty much every other mirroring software pretty much useless in capturing the whole website. Perhaps I'm using it wrongly, but I had the same problems with windows programs as well.

But what I really wanted was for the tool to check what pages the website actually physically uses, rather than what is on the host file system (which probably has all the same garbage which has been uploaded from my local hard disk), because I'd like to cleanup both my hard disk as well as my hosts files.

 

[PNW]

A few tools:

Teleport Pro ($50?)
Abacre Advanced Find and Replace ($30/$40) - This is very powerful tool.
Notepad++(free)- Notepad on steroids and then some. Use to compare files.

 

[Name Trader]

Thanks for the suggestions, menzl. I'll check them out.