Creating unified diff files completely from command line

[senf]

Hi,

I am looking for a command line tool that would take two paths to text files as input and output a file in the unified diff format (On Windows).

Can I use Beyond Compare do that?

Thanks,

Senf

[Aaron]

Hello senf,

Yes, this would be done with BC Script.

For example, a BC Script call can use variables on the command line call: bcompare.exe @script.txt variable1 variable2 variable3
You could call bcompare.exe @"c:\myscript.txt" "c:\file1.txt" "c:\file2.txt" "c:\output.txt"

The script would then contain:

text-report layout:patch options:patch-unified output-to:%3 %1 %2

You can generate the report using our graphical interface first, to see if it is the style you want, by opening a Text Compare session, loading your two files, then go to the Session menu -> Text Comparison Report.

Our trial is fully featured and can be used to test this before purchase:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php