comparing multile files to single output

Re: comparing multile files to single output

BC scripts can't append to reports.

What might work is to have the report append using a batch file.

Make your batch file two lines:

bc2.exe "@script.txt" %7 %6 temp.txt /silent
type temp.txt >> all.txt

This only works for text file output. The problem with HTML is that each HTML report will have its own HEAD, BODY, etc tags, and if you concatenate invidual report files you'll get them multiple times.

The other option is to get a copy of the repository version to a temp directory, then use a BC script to generate a single file report of the directories as a whole.

Re: comparing multile files to single output

thanks for the suggestions !

about generating a single file report of the directories as a whole. i wasn't aware of that was possible.

i am able to generate a folder-report on two directories, but a file-report on two directories, what would the syntax be like.

i have tried various combinations like

load "dir1" "dir2"
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file-report layout:side-by-side options:display-mismatches output-to:somefile.txt

./allan

Re: comparing multile files to single output

Here's an example of a directory file-report.

When you don't name files in the file report command, it operates on the currently selected files. The key is to make sure you have a select command in your script in this case.

Re: comparing multile files to single output

I would like to do something similar but slightly different.

I want to compare two directory structures and produce separate a patch diff file for each file found to be different - rather than all into one output file.

For example:
Folder 1 has files A, B & C and subfolder X with file D.
Folder 2 has the same structure and files and a new file E. Its files A, C & D are updated versions of folder 1's files of the same name.
Now I want to create in a separate folder (say called "DIFFS"), files named A.diff.txt, C.diff.txt & D.diff.txt. (I don't mind if D.diffs.txt is in a sub-folder X of folder DIFFS - following the original folder structure.)

I hope the above is clear.

Re: comparing multile files to single output

There isn't a single command that will generate multiple individual file reports.

With the File-report command, you can either generate a single concatenated diff of multiple files, or generate a single diff of a pair of files.

If you want to generate a separate report for each pair of files, you'll have to use a script like:
And call the script for each pair of files.
BC2.exe @script.txt file1 file2 output.txt

If you know the file names ahead of time, you can automate the script calls using a batch file.

Re: comparing multile files to single output

That is a real shame.

I have a very large project with 100s of files spread over 10 sub-directories. It would have been nice if BC could have done the compare and then created the necessary individual patch files.

May I request a (not so distant) future enhancement to the file-report script function to do this given the output from a previous compare and select statements?

Another option would be to implement something like the "for" statement e.g. "for every file selected to the following commands".

For example using a previous example in this thread:or something similar!

David

Re: comparing multile files to single output

Thank you for the suggestion. We'll consider adding this feature to Beyond Compare's report capabilities in the future.

Re: comparing multile files to single output

Hi,
We also will use bc in a batch to automate comparision.
I would like to add an request for a feature which goes a little bit further but will simply do what in the gui works already.

Apart from having a html-report for each different file I would like to have a folder-report where one can browse to each file report.

The code I have does not solve the problem as the file-report puts all in one file.

actual code ist:
criteria rules-based
load "C:\a" "C:\b"
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#select diff.files
select all
file-report layout:side-by-side options:display-mismatches,line-numbers output-to:report.html output-options:html-color
folder-report layout:side-by-side options:display-all output-to:freport.html output-options:html-color

Actually I have to use one script to create a folder-report
and for each file a file-report and the enhance the folder-report html-file to have html-links to the file-reports.

It would realy be nice if BC could do the job, because (apart form having to edit the html-file by a script) we have not to run bc for each file and but only one time.

Re: comparing multile files to single output

Thank you for the suggestion. Linking the folder report to individual file reports is on our wish list for a future version of Beyond Compare.

Did this ever get implemented? It would be a really nice feature.

Hello,

Yes, in the Folder Compare's Session menu -> Folder Compare Report dialog, select the layout Side-by-side and output to HTML. Then enable the option to "include links to file reports".