Concise and descriptive... good!
... precise and complete: also required, or, at least, a very good idea!

The original post -- read very carefully -- arguably satisfies all of those or comes close (but the fact that you don't care what any differences are comes out only later). Nonetheless, a couple extra words would make the spec a lot clearer: for example,

s/The script will make a text file "foo.txt" and then query every other host in the system to see if the contents of "foo.txt" agree./A copy of the script on each host will make a text file...if the content of that host's "foo.txt" agrees with the local copy./

(And, BTW, what are your criteria for "agree?" If some of your hosts are *n*x and some 'doze, are variant line endings allowed? What about the timestamps?)

Further, as some nodes in this thread make clear: those who would help would like to know what the triggering event is; whether you have a plan for having each of N hosts check with each of the others, and perhaps even 'how you intend to use a report of differences' since that might restrict (or broaden) your options.

In reply to Re: Distributed agreement woes by ww
in thread Distributed agreement woes by andrew732

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.