Text list comparison program wanted

Capt'n Midnight · 07-01-2004 4:53pm #1

I've two text lists and I want to compare them to produce a third file the items from the second list that aren't in the first list.

FC don't do what I want
FIND would be too slow

The program needs to be run in a batch file and accept filenames on the command line.

zoro · 07-01-2004 6:38pm

if you know java it'd take about 20 mins to get it up and running for you ... a batch file would be ok with it too so long as you've the jre installed

c++ and the like would be easy enough to write one too, but after that i haven't bothered with a google or anything

dahamsta · 07-01-2004 7:03pm

Beyond Compare has scripting capability so it may be possible to use that. I don't doubt diff could probably manage it, but possibily only in conjuction with other unix tools and I'm not sure it's been ported to Win32 (unless you have Cygnus installed of course).

adam

maxheadroom · 08-01-2004 12:48pm

Would CYGWIN 'diff' not work?

dahamsta · 08-01-2004 1:37pm

Doesn't the entire Cygwin distribution need to be install for any of the apps linked to it to work?

adam

maxheadroom · 08-01-2004 4:02pm

Here's the bare mnimum you'd need to install to get diff working, according the the CYGWIN setup program:

ash-20031007-1.tar.bz2
base-passwd-1.1-1.tar.bz2
cygwin-1.5.5-1.tar.bz2
diffutils-2.8.4-1.tar.bz2
libgettextpo0-0.12.1-3.tar.bz2
libiconv2-1.9.1-3.tar.bz2
libintl1-0.10.40-1.tar.bz2
libintl2-0.12.1-3.tar.bz2
texinfo-4.2-4.tar.bz2

Stark · 08-01-2004 4:17pm

There might be a MINGW compiled version of diff.

Or try WinMerge - http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

Text list comparison program wanted

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