How to hide matching folders in a Report?

Hi, I'm trying to make a script that creates a report showing only the mismatches. So far it almost does what I want it to. The only problem is that it also prints all the directories, even if they're matching. How can I hide these?

-David

[Craig]

Are you using a recent release (2.1)? I think this was changed recently to exclude non-matching folders.

I'm actually on 2.0.1.

Nope, I use the latest version on the your web and it still list all matched folder.
my script as follow:


criteria timestamp; size
filter -d:\backup\2004-02-27\thebat-2004-02-27.bcss
load "c:\dn\thebat" "d:\backup\2004-02-27\thebat-2004-02-27.bcss"
expand all
folder-report layout:summary options:column-none,display-mismatches output-to:"C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\cpresult.txt"

[Carlos]

I am interested in a possible solution to this as well

[Chris]

BC Version 2.1.2 (The latest release on our web site) allows you to hide matching folders.

I wrote two scripts to compare folders, one displaying all, and one hiding matching folders.

Script to show all:


criteria timestamp; size
load "c:\bc\f1" "c:\bc\f2"
expand all
folder-report layout:summary &
options:column-none,display-all &
output-to:"C:\bc\out_all.txt"


Output of that script:


FOLDER COMPARISON
Produced: 3/23/2004 5:43:25 PM

Mode: All Files

Matching Files
-----------------------
same\same.txt
-----------------------

Left Side Newer Files
-----------------------

Right Side Newer Files
-----------------------
different\different.txt

-----------------------

Left Side Orphans
-----------------------

Right Side Orphans
-----------------------

Contents Differ
-----------------------


Now the script only showing mismatches:


criteria timestamp; size
load "c:\bc\f1" "c:\bc\f2"
expand all
folder-report layout:summary &
options:column-none,display-mismatches &
output-to:"C:\bc\out_mismatch.txt"


And the output:


FOLDER COMPARISON
Produced: 3/23/2004 5:43:31 PM

Mode: Just Mismatches

Left Side Newer Files
-----------------------

Right Side Newer Files
-----------------------
different\different.txt

-----------------------

Left Side Orphans
-----------------------

Right Side Orphans
-----------------------

Contents Differ
-----------------------


As long as you have the latest (2.1.2) version of BC, matching directories will not show up if you use the display-mismatches option.

BC Version 2.1.2 (The latest release on our web site) allows you to hide matching folders.
I wrote two scripts to compare folders, one displaying all, and one hiding matching folders.

Script to show all:
As long as you have the latest (2.1.2) version of BC, matching directories will not show up if you use the display-mismatches option.



Here is my log, uses latest version and display-mismatches option, a single mismatched file produce a report of 239 lines.

FOLDER COMPARISON
Produced: 2004/3/6 05:01:07

Mode: Just Mismatches
Filters: -h:\backup\DataBaseArch\2004-03-05\database-2004-03-05.bcss
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[Chris]

It might help to change the criteria for the comparison.
Looking at the output of the report, many of the files are the same size, but the timestamps don't match. In your earlier posted script, you have the line:
criteria timestamp; size
So all the files may have the same contents, but if the timestamps don't match they will be listed.

If the timestamp isn't important, you can do an exact comparison of any type of file using a binary comparison, although that will be slower.

You can use attributes, version, time-stamp, size, CRC, binary, or rules-based comparisons as described in the Beyond Compare help file under Script Processing->Scripting reference->Criteria.

Experiment with comparison criteria and post again if you are still having problems.

[Craig]

Philip,

Sorry about that. Chris and my earlier testing was based on your older posting that used the Summary list style, which doesn't have this problem.

I've confirmed that this is a bug in the scripting support for the side-by-side style. It will be fixed in the next release, but if you need something sooner than that email support@scootersoftware.com.

Philip,

Sorry about that. Chris and my earlier testing was based on your older posting that used the Summary list style, which doesn't have this problem.

I've confirmed that this is a bug in the scripting support for the side-by-side style. It will be fixed in the next release, but if you need something sooner than that email support@scootersoftware.com.



Thank you. By the way, would you try command line option /expandall ? I try it onece and it seems doesn't work. I quickly wirte it back into the script so not quite sure if it really doesn't work.

Regards,

Philip

[Chris]

Hi Phillip,

I did a quick test of the /expandall command from the command line and it seems to work.

Just a comparison of two folders from the command line with the following:


bc2 c:\bc\f1 c:\bc\f2 /expandall
bc2 c:\bc\f1 c:\bc\f2


Using the /expandall option opens up bc with folders expanded.

In a script, the expand all command should work too. I wrote a simple script testing it, and then ran it with expand all commented out (using #) and it should work correctly.

Hi Phillip,

I did a quick test of the /expandall command from the command line and it seems to work.

Just a comparison of two folders from the command line with the following:


bc2 c:\bc\f1 c:\bc\f2 /expandall
bc2 c:\bc\f1 c:\bc\f2


Using the /expandall option opens up bc with folders expanded.

In a script, the expand all command should work too. I wrote a simple script testing it, and then ran it with expand all commented out (using #) and it should work correctly.



BC2 [/expandall] @scriptfile.txt [/expandall] doesn't work. I have to put "expand all" in the script file. Am I doing something wrong?

Philip

[Chris]

Sorry, previously I only tested expanding folders with a script, or only using a command line option, but not the command line option and a script.

I'll add it to our bug database to be fixed in a future release. I guess for now just include expand-all in the script.

Thanks for the report.

[Craig]

Philip,

We'll have /expandall working with scripts in the next release. It will only affect the first load that contains base folders (so load <default> won't trigger it).

If you want more control, an option that works in the current release is the command line variable support. You can use %n (eg %2) to insert arguments on the command line into the script. The numbers start counting at 1, and include anything that isn't a switch (with a leading /) or the script name. For example, if you had a script like:

load Session1
%1
select left.newer.files
copy left->right


You can call it as either:
bc2 @scriptfile.txt "expand all"
or
bc2 @scriptfile.txt
and it will insert the "expand all" command if it's present.

Copy that, thank you very much.
FYI, I use BC to write a on-demand backup program. That is, backup if there are any change made. BC is used to compare the folders, copy the changed file, and verify the result. the script file is generated dynamically so if the /expandall is not for working with script file then I have to write it into every generator routine, that's OK for me because I've finished it :)