Text Compare Scripting

[Brad1Dickerson]

I have two text files that I want to do a text compare and add the new lines from one file to the other. Can I script this?

One file will have a line added to it each day and I want to add that line to a master list with a scripted scheduled task.


This only seems to work for folders, not files.

# Dat_Script.txt
# Copy Fld724 HTL to fld426 I:Component DBS010
# "C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe"
# "@C:\Temp\Dat_Script.txt"

# Turn logging on
log verbose append:"C:\Temp\%date%_Dat_Script_log.txt"

# Override Prompt
option confirm:yes-to-all

load "C:\Temp\New Text Document.txt" "C:\Temp\New Text Document (2).txt"
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sync create-empty update:left->right

[Aaron]

Hello,

Scripting does not support copying specific text lines into a file. The sync commands work on a folder level, so the New version of the file can overwrite the entire Old version, if that is ok. Otherwise, Scripting on the file level only supports generating a comparison report (text-report command, which can accept file names as parameters without loading entire folders).

text-report layout:side-by-side output-to:"c:\temp\bcreport.html" output-options:html-color "c:\file1.txt" "c:\file2.txt"