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Cross-compare several files with a diff tool
Have anyone encountered the challenge of comparing several files with each other on a Mac/unix machine?
Consider a list of files 100.txt, 101.txt, 102.txt etc. in the same folder.
How can I cross-...
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BeyondCompare doesn't ignore difference in line endings (DOS/UNIX)
I am using BeyondCompare 4 on Windows 10 to compare two directories with thousands of files.
They are the basically same, but one exported from Windows, and another one from Linux. The only difference ...
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How to diff three binary files to show only what changed between 1 and 2 and then changed back between 2 and 3?
I have three binary files (memory dumps). Call them file1, file2, file3.
I'm trying to debug some software, and I'm toggling a switch.
file1 = switch off
file2 = switch on
file3 = switch off
I need ...
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Compare and partly merge multiple projects without common ancestor
I'm looking for a way to compare/diff 3+ different, strongly related projects, none of which is the others' common ancestor and copy around ("merge") single chunks,
and specifically test files.
I do ...
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Compare three or more Word documents (*.docx)
I've seen multiple questions and answers for how to compare two Word documents, and I've seen some questions and answers for how to compare three or more raw text files, but I'm struggling to find a ...
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What are the most reliable attributes for comparing two files in order to confirm/verify they are 100% identical?
I had the following situation:
I copied 5.5 TB worth of data (in total over 100,000 directories and 10 million files) from an old disk to a newly-purchased external disk.
I used Ultracopier on ...
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How to compare two files and output lines which do not appear in the first?
If I have a file A containing a list of fields:
2017-04-23
2017-04-30
2017-05-07
2017-05-14
2017-05-21
2017-05-28
2017-06-04
2017-06-11
2017-06-18
2017-06-25
And another file B containing a list of ...
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What are these odd characters appearing when I use P4Merge with TortoiseSVN?
When comparing files, I get these characters at the start of the diff.
Image of the strange characters
I'm not sure exactly what more information to provide, but will be watching this question if ...
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How to find similarities in two text files?
Given two text files, how can I find passages that are alike? I know that I can use Meld or another diff tool to show the differences, but how to do the reverse thing?
For example, here are two texts ...
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How do I compare two folders recursively and generate a list of files and folders that are different?
tl;dr and an example
I'm looking for a way to compare two folders recursively and output the relative paths all files (and folders) that are different (by size or by timestamp, à la rsync).
For ...
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Remove difference b/w PC and Unix Text in beyond compare
My problem is I'm try to compare two folders which are almost same but some little difference.
But when I compare both of the folders then it shows difference in each file.
When i open the file its ...
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Diff two files side by side, new lines on left column for no match
This has been getting the good half of my day and I am sure such a solution must exist (if not, then I am programming one), but alas, here is the question.
I have two files, hpc.sorted.modules.txt ...
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How to configure BeyondCompare to mark newline differences as unimportant?
Newline additions in the middle of a line in BeyondCompare are marked as important. I want them to become unimportant. How to do that?
Example:
A:
<img src="a.gif"/>
B:
<img
src="a....
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File comparison, one-to-many
I need a program that allows comparing one text file to many others without having to open each one manually.
This is how it would work:
1) select the file which all others will be compare with
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