Recursive FC diff

[Fer Martin]

Hey guys,

have any of you found a way to use FC in a recursive way? I found
there is not a standard way to do it, and I think it's kind of useless
for big applications if you need to go directory per directory
creating diffs.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance,
-Fer Martin

[billious]

"Fer Martin" <FernandoMa...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Depends on quite what you mean.

But I've found FC to be a little unreliable. When performing a text
comparison with defaults and there is a line present in one file, missing in
another, it will sometimes report the missing line and two following lines
rather than the normal behaviour - the line each side. The lines involved
appeared to be of no particular significance - not first or last in file,
for instance, and I gain the impression that it might have something to do
with block-boundaries on the read operation.

I've also found that FC occasionally reports that it can't find a file when
there appears to be no reason since the same file can TYPEd and reacts
normally to other commands.Of course, that may have been that particular
system set-up, given that the system in question was maintained by a lying
incompetent lunatic bitch who got me the sack - but I seem to recall its
happening on other systems where networking was involved.

What exactly do you want to do?

[Fer Martin]

On Oct 26, 2:28 pm, "billious" <billious_1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Fer Martin" <FernandoMartinSant...@gmail.com> wrote in message

Thanks for your help.
I'm aware of the bad things about FC, but still want to use this tool.

If you type:

>FC c:\dir1\*.* c:\dir2\*.*

you can get all the differences for the files between dir1 and dir2,
but you can't get to any inner directory (c:\dir1\myDirectory\...). So
what I'm looking for is a way to compare, not only files in a
directory, but all the files inside every subdirectory.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance,
Fernando

[billious]

"Fer Martin" <FernandoMa...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> On Oct 26, 2:28 pm, "billious" <billious_1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Fer Martin" <FernandoMartinSant...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1193364368.9...@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com..

[snip].

>>
> Thanks for your help.
> I'm aware of the bad things about FC, but still want to use this tool.
>
> If you type:
>
>>FC c:\dir1\*.* c:\dir2\*.*
>
> you can get all the differences for the files between dir1 and dir2,
> but you can't get to any inner directory (c:\dir1\myDirectory\...). So
> what I'm looking for is a way to compare, not only files in a
> directory, but all the files inside every subdirectory.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Fernando
>

So - are you looking for identical subtrees, or to compare a set of files
against a subtree?

ie
FC c:\(complete subtree dir1)\*.* c:\(complete subtree dir2)\*.*
or
FC c:\dir1\*.* c:\(complete subtree dir2)\*.*

Either way, I'd suggest FOR /R would be a good start (see FOR /? from the
prompt)
or
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%x in ( ' dir /s /b /a:d c:\...... ' ) do ....
which should apply each subdirectory name in c:\...... to %%x

Also need to know what do do about the "file missing" situation where the
file matching the first AFN is missing in the target directory - and
possibly vice-versa.

[foxidrive]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:16:25 -0700, Fer Martin
<FernandoMa...@gmail.com> wrote:

>If you type:
>
>>FC c:\dir1\*.* c:\dir2\*.*
>
>you can get all the differences for the files between dir1 and dir2,
>but you can't get to any inner directory (c:\dir1\myDirectory\...). So
>what I'm looking for is a way to compare, not only files in a
>directory, but all the files inside every subdirectory.

If you want to compare two directory trees then there are better tools.

Here's one I've used in the past:

http://allan.hoiberg.dk/eng/prog_ct.htm