Comparing folder and listing only different files

[gillsurjeet]

I am kind of newbie to Beyond Compare, and first of all, I want to extend my thanks to Scooter Software to provide this kind of wonderful compare tool, I love it.

I am seeking help to create BC script, if someone can help me, to achieve following tasks:
1. I want to compare two folder and their contents under them, can I ignore certain file extensions e.g. *.bin
2. I want to List all mismatched in size (ignore date time stamp) or orphan files present in either folders.
3. spit out the difference in a log file.

How I can do it?

[Chris]

Re: Comparing folder and listing only different fi

criteria timestamp
filter "-*.bin"
load folder1 folder2
expand all
folder-report layout:summary options:display-mismatches output-to:report.txt

For multiple filters, separate them with semicolons.

Example: filter "-*.bin;-*.exe"

To run the script, use the command:
bc2.exe @scriptfile.txt

[gillsurjeet]

Re: Comparing folder and listing only different fi

Many thanks Chris,
You script gave me ahead start. I modify that script and ended up the script below, which meets my requirements.

#
# Command line: C>bc2.exe @cmp.txt folder1 folder2
#
#criteria timestamp # uncomment if you need comparison based on timestamp
criteria size # comparison based on file size
filter "-*.bin;-*.dll" # exclude *.bin and *.dll files from compare
load %1 %2 # load folders to compare
expand all
select all.newer all.diff all.orphans
#folder-report layout:summary options:display-mismatches output-to:report.txt
folder-report layout:side-by-side options:display-mismatches output-to:report.html output-options:html-color

This creates nice report. Just curious is there a way to get count of mismatched, orphan or new files.
I appreciate your help.
Many thanks,
S Gill

[Chris]

Re: Comparing folder and listing only different fi

It isn't possible to generate a count of mismatched, orphan, or new files in a report in the current version of BC. I'll add it to our feature wish list.

[Guest]

Re: Comparing folder and listing only different fi

Let me add my vote for the summary counts of how many files are left-side only, right-side only, new on left, newer on right, etc.
Unless I have totally lost it, wasn't this feature in the product before version 2?

Thanks

[Chris]

Re: Comparing folder and listing only different fi

In version 1.9, it was possible to display the information in a dialog using File|Comparison Info, but it wasn't possible to write the information out to a report file.