[Jennic]

Hi all:

1. I am looking for a command, commands or a script, that will take two file names or file paths, compare their contents and report if they are the same. Files are text files and contents are to be compared text-wise.

2. I need to extend this further to compare two directories as follows.
- Do they have the same files ?
- Do the corresponding files have exactly the same text ?

3. And, to make it even more challengeing, I need to extend the above to two directories which contain several levels of subdirectories and files.

Needs to work on Win 2K and Vista.

Anyone up to the challenge ? If you can show me a way to a solution, that will be great.

Have a good day.

Jenni

[randi-r-11]

Hi Jenni:

The following commands in biterscripting ( .com for free download) will compare two files.

cat "file1.txt" > $content1
cat "file2.txt" > $content2

if ($content <> $content)
echo DIFFERENT
endif

file1.txt and file2.txt are examples. I started a blog to describe how to develop comprehensive scripting solutions. I am creating a complete script that will meet all your requirements 1, 2 and 3. Feel free to periodically check that blog at scriptingsolutions at blogspot.com .

Randi

[randi-r-11]

You need to add the following line before the above script.

var str content1, content2

Randi