Using Beyond Compare with EditPlus. You can configure the popular EditPlus text editor to send a pair of open files to Beyond Compare for comparison: In EditPlus, select Tools| Configure User Tools. Click Add Tool >> and select Program. Name the Tool 'Beyond Compare'. In the Command field, enter the path to Beyond Compare. Other editors offer 'file comparisons', ie open two files side-by-side in the same. (free) or BeyondCompare (not free) and set it up as a User Tool in EditPlus. I personally prefer beyond compare but strangely enough the version 2 i.
Dalloway, Thanks for using the Microsoft Answers Forum You might try the Microsoft Synctoy. It allows you to create a folder pair by telling the program which two folders you want to compare.
This utility will then allow you to sync information between the two folders and make them identical in information. I have included a link to a Microsoft site where the download of Synctoy is available if you wish to use it.
This link also gives access to the utilities features and uses. Please let us know if this is the feature you are looking for or if we can be of more assistance. Judd Microsoft Answers Support Engineer Visit our and let us know what you think. Hello, One more way to do this would be to use the comp command from the command prompt. Click on Start and type cmd and press enter.
If you type help comp and press enter, it will return the following: Compares the contents of two files or sets of files. COMP data1 data2 /D /A /L /N=number /C /OFFLINE data1 Specifies location and name(s) of first file(s) to compare. Data2 Specifies location and name(s) of second files to compare. /D Displays differences in decimal format. /A Displays differences in ASCII characters. /L Displays line numbers for differences.
/N=number Compares only the first specified number of lines in each file. /C Disregards case of ASCII letters when comparing files. /OFFLINE Do not skip files with offline attribute set. To compare sets of files, use wildcards in data1 and data2 parameters. For example, we have two different text files, test1.txt and test2.txt.
The contents of each are as follows: test1.txt file size 22 bytes aa bb cc dd ee ff test2.txt files size 20 bytes aa cc cc dd ff If we simply run comp without switches it will tell you if the size is different (Without /N=? It defaults to this) - comp test1.txt test2.txt Comparing test1.txt and test2.txt. Files are different sizes. If we add a few switches, it changes behavior.
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/N=10 means scan the first 10 lines of the file. /A means tell me what's different in a readable format. comp test1.txt test2.txt /N=10 /A Comparing test1.txt and test2.txt. Compare error at LINE 2 file1 = b file2 = c Compare error at LINE 2 file1 = b file2 = c Compare error at LINE 5 file1 = e file2 = f Compare error at LINE 5 file1 = e file2 = f File2 only has 5 lines - Please let me know if that helps. Brent Microsoft Answers Support Engineer Visit our and let us know what you think.
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