Questions and issues with File-report comaprison

[dinesh1393]

Hi,

Could you please help me how to create a script for comparing two files and generating a report in Binary format.
i,e: If both files are same it should give output like 'file1.txt = file2.txt' or 'file1.txt <> file2.txt'.
Also, the input parameters will contain file names only not folder.

I tried the below script but its giving the difference of the file content. I want only the file names with equal or not equal signs. Is there any possibility to create a script to get the output like this.

file-report layout:side-by-side &
options:ignore-unimportant,display-context &
output-to:"D:\New folder\report.txt" output-options:html-color "D:\New folder\file1.txt" "D:\New folder\file2.txt"

Thanks in advance,
Dinesh Kumar

[Aaron]

Hello,

No, not directly. You can generate a Folder report with a list of files, and that would be a list of file names. The File report generates a report of the file content given two files. If you pick the layout:statistics type contains numerical values for each criteria, so you could parse this to find if the files are equal or different.

Alternatively, you can use:
bcomp.com /qc "d:\file1" "d:\file2"
and
echo %ErrorLevel%

which returns a code for if the files are equal or different, but not text. The code list is documented in our Help menu -> Contents (F1), Command Line Reference chapter.