Compare files or folders in v6.80 ?

shot-bowl · Post by **shot-bowl** » 10 Mar 2008 13:10

Hi

I am a brand new member - just joined today.
I could not find any answers in the search of this Index.

Is there a way / command / script / something else to compare two files, or the contents of two folders ?

Thank you in advance.

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 10 Mar 2008 15:12

Greetings, and welcome to the XY forums!

At the moment, XY does not have this type of ability, and I don't recall if Don has any plans to do content compares in future...a folder compare is on the development roadmap, I believe.

Since this is not really within the general scope of a file manager, I have found a couple of other freeware products that I use for these functions:
http://www.tgrmn.com/free/ for folder compares...
http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp for text file compares...

shot-bowl · Post by **shot-bowl** » 10 Mar 2008 16:15

Hi

Thank you very much for your assistance and links.
I will visit them.
Much appreciated ...

Post by **admin** » 10 Mar 2008 16:29

You can integrate those compare tools into XY via UDC Open With.

Quoting the help file:

Example 10: With any compare-tool accepting two-way comparisons via command line you can easily set up a one-click file comparison:

"compare" <item1> <item2>

This will your tool with the first two of all selected items in the given order. Any other selected items are ignored.

"compare" should be the name or path/file of your tool. Assuming that it can handle command line params, of course.