Batch file to compare directories

[Lauren Ambrose]

Hello,
I am trying to compare two directories, also if it is possible then I will compare the the files in the those directories,but the first problem is to compare the two directories, and the result that is the difference between the two directories must go to another file. Is this possible, if it is then please let me know. Thanks in advance.

[Gunner 1]

Hello,
Even I am trying a similar kind of a program. Consider that there are two folder A and B respectively. all the file in the B directory are present in the A directory, but there are some other files in the A directory. How do I sort out these files
I have do this code till now

for %%F in (*.*) do dir ..\A\%%F /b >> ..\test.txt

So, if you have any idea about this then please help me with this. Thank you for your help.

[InterNetWorKed]

Hello,
You can try something like this , if you need

fc /L c:\filemon.txt c:\dos.txt > c:\test.txt

If you just want to copy the text file then this code will work and if you want more that this you have to add some more code to it. Also you can use the error codes such as xxxcp16 etc. If you need to copy the files differently then you need to use the IFN in your code. Hope this information will help you. If you have any more queries regarding this topic then do post back.

[SoftWore]

Hello,
I do no think this should be really hard to do. If you have some programming basic then you can do this easily. A few months I had written a code which would delete the duplicated files or entries from the directory tree list. But to do a program like this your code should be or rather is heavenly based on the the services like the REXX/CRC etc.. As you need to match the size of the file and some of their properties. So, if goes hard without this code. I guess you have understood what i am trying to explain.

[HardWeaR]

Hello,
I had a similar kind of problem a few days before, but I had wrote a code which solved all of my queries
Here is the code which i am talking about

diff -u <dir1> <dir2> > <path to difference>/somefile.txt

See, if this part of code works for you. This is not the full code, but this is the important line in the code. I think this should solve your problem. Try out this and if you have any queries related to this code then post back with the error you get.

[cyber-noob]

Hello,
You can use the following batch script

Echo Files that are found in BOTH folders %dA% AND %dB% >b.txt
Echo. >>b.txt
findstr /G:dA.txt dB.txt >>b.txt
echo ------------------------------------- >>b.txt


Echo Files that are found in folder %dA% but NOT in folder %dB% >AnotinB.txt
Echo. >>AnotinB.txt
find /V /C "this_is_an_absurd_string" dB.txt >nln.txt
for /f "tokens=3 delims= " %%B in (nln.txt) do set /A maxnum=%%B

for /F  "tokens=* delims= " %%A in (dA.txt) do (
find /V /C "%%A" dB.txt >nln.txt
for /f "tokens=3 delims= " %%B in (nln.txt) do set /A foundnum=%%B
if %maxnum%==!foundnum! echo %%A >>AnotinB.txt
)
echo ------------------------------------- >>AnotinB.txt


Echo Files that are found in folder %dB% but NOT in folder %dA% >bnA.txt
Echo. >>bnA.txt
find /V /C "this_is_an_absurd_string" dA.txt >nln.txt
for /f "tokens=3 delims= " %%B in (nln.txt) do set /A maxnum=%%B

for /F "tokens=* delims= " %%A in (dB.txt) do (
find /V /C "%%A" dA.txt >nln.txt
for /f "tokens=3 delims= " %%B in (nln.txt) do set /A foundnum=%%B
if %maxnum%==!foundnum! echo %%A >>bnA.txt
)
echo. >>bnA.txt
echo ------------------------------------- >>bnA.txt

copy /B b.txt+AnotinB.txt+bnA.txt dupli.txt >nul
more dupli.txt

for %%A in (dA.txt dB.txt b.txt AnotinB.txt bnA.txt nln.txt) do (
if exist %%A del %%A
)