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Looking for Recomandations for Text Compare Tool
209 sats \ 7 comments \ @Wumbo 18 Jun devs
I often find myself on a random Window server doing troubleshooting trying to compare two text files.
Examples:
  • Is the host file the same as another one.
  • Is this SQL Script the same.
There are online text compare tools which are fast and easy but submitting data to an off site server has its issues.
Please post your recommendations for a light weight program (or maybe there is a built in windows tool) that can be installed quickly that will let me compare two text files and see the differences.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 18 Jun
I have in the past just used cygwin compiled gnu diff for this. IIRC it just needs the main cygwin dll in the same dir and done.
But... don't take windows advice from a Linux person.
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18 Jun
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 18 Jun
oh. great! thanks for the idea.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo OP 18 Jun
Thank, Works Well.
It was easy to add the plugin
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @037447d9ca 18 Jun
https://meld.app/
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 18 Jun
I use the open source tool Notepad++ for most of my editing. And then there's a compare plug-in tool that I use - I think it's just called Compare. It's fine, and I'm used to it, so I stick with it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fishious 18 Jun
If you just want to quickly check if the two files are the same, you can compare and see if the hashes match. Command is Get-FileHash [test.txt]
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