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I deal with a system which is deployed over several servers and serveral environments. Is there a tool I can use to visually bulk compare several files (spread amonst many servers) at once, so I can for example compare production from two weeks ago with production from now, or so that I can compare production with test?

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Have a look at WinSCP running on windows to access linux/unix servers. It acts like an explorer or a Wincommander (splitt-screen). – Ice Mar 6 '11 at 13:41
How would you be accessing the files? (FTP, SAMBA, NFS, etc...) – Breakthrough Mar 6 '11 at 15:27
Just a suggestion... you might want to look at a configuration management system like Puppet or Chef for future use. – Joe Internet Mar 6 '11 at 17:14
I would access the files using SCP or SSH – Zubair Mar 6 '11 at 18:34
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You can use RSync from the Unix side (or from Cygwin on Windows) -- your Unix/Linux environment may be able to mount SMB, if it can then you're in luck...

RSync has some command-line options that will show you which files will be synchronized (because they're different), but without actually doing the synchronization. You could re-direct this output into a text file and load it in your favourite word processor, spreadsheet, or database from there.

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