Beyond Compare 3 - automation of several files comparison

[Chaveex]

Hello everyone,


First, I would like to thank you for the work done on Beyond Compare which rocks !

I have a problem and here is a context. My job is to compare with Beyond Compare, some .txt files from two distincts environments, and I have to specify my own matching keys for each files couple.
The problem is that I have hundred files to compare, I waste a lot of time doing it one by one.
So, I decided to try to run any scripts which would permit me to run Beyond Compare with the following settings :


bcscript.txt

log verbose append:"C:\Users\xxxx\yyyyyy\POCBeyondCompare\logs\logtest.txt"
beep
load "%1" "%2"
expand all
select all
data-report layout:side-by-side options:display-mismatches,ignore-unimportant output-to:"%3" output-options:wrap-word,html-custom="../styles.css"

and here is the batch script run_compare.bat

"C:\\xxxxxxxx\\Scooter Software\\Beyond Compare\\bcompare.exe" "@C:\\Users\\xxxxxx\\yyyyyy\\POCBeyondCompare\\bcscript.txt" "C:\\Users\\xxxxxx\\yyyyyy\\POCBeyondCompare\\A" "C:\\Users\\xxxxxx\\yyyyyy\\POCBeyondCompare\\B" "C:\\xxxxxx\\yyyyyy\\Documents\\POCBeyondCompare\\Results\\bcreport_2209.html"

I met my first problem, It seems that I cannot set matching keys from a script. Then, I have looked on Scooter forum and I found that I can modify these keys in the BCSessions.xml in the following tag :

<Keys Value="2;3;7" />

Therefore, I began to develop a tool that permit to generate a BCSessions.xml with settings set in an Excel file, and finally I got this xml :


BCSessions.xml generated :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BCSessions>
    <TSessionFolder>
        <Items>
            <TDataCompareSession Value="file1.txt and file2.txt">
                <Rules>
                    <Cols>
                        <Keys Value="2;4;8;10"/>
                    </Cols>
                </Rules>
                <Specs>
                    <Left Value="C:/Users/981210/Documents/POCBeyondCompare/A/file1.txt"/>
                    <Right Value="C:/Users/981210/Documents/POCBeyondCompare/B/file2.txt"/>
                </Specs>
                <State>
                    <DisplayFilter Value="[showLeftMod, showRightMod, showDiffMod]"/>
                </State>
            </TDataCompareSession>
            <TDataCompareSession Value="monfichier1 and monfichier2">
                <Rules>
                    <Cols>
                        <Keys Value="2;4;8;11"/>
                    </Cols>
                </Rules>
                <Specs>
                    <Left Value="C:/Users/981210/Documents/POCBeyondCompare/A/file3.txt"/>
                    <Right Value="C:/Users/981210/Documents/POCBeyondCompare/B/file4.txt"/>
                </Specs>
                <State>
                    <DisplayFilter Value="[showLeftMod, showRightMod, showDiffMod]"/>
                </State>
            </TDataCompareSession>
            <TDataCompareSession Value="file5.txt and file6.txt">
                <Rules>
                    <Cols>
                        <Keys Value="2;4;8;12"/>
                    </Cols>
                </Rules>
                <Specs>
                    <Left Value="C:/Users/981210/Documents/POCBeyondCompare/A/file5.txt"/>
                    <Right Value="C:/Users/981210/Documents/POCBeyondCompare/B/file6.txt"/>
                </Specs>
                <State>
                    <DisplayFilter Value="[showLeftMod, showRightMod, showDiffMod]"/>
                </State>
            </TDataCompareSession>
        </Items>
    </TSessionFolder>
</BCSessions>

Once generated, I put this BCSessions.xml into the Beyond Compare AppDate directory, but when I run BC, it does not considerate my xml...

I begin to lose hope, is there a solution for my problem ?
(A little reminder for this long thread, the problem : I would like to automate multi files .txt comparison and defining my own matching keys)

Thanks !

Chaveex

[Aaron]

Thanks for the translation into English, but I already used Google Translate and answered in the French forum, here:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/vbull...(Data-Compare)