detail report for all files in directory?

mmglobal · Post by **mmglobal** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:47 pm

I'm sure this has been asked and answered dozens of times, but I can't find it.

I need to compare all files in directories. That's easy enough. But the output I want is a listing of all the changes for all the files. What I find are lists of changed files, or I can do individual file compares and see side by side differences for the entire file.

Again... I'm looking for a listing of only the changes in all the files

Thanks in advance for the help.

Mark

Sorry... resubmitting with notify on

Post by **psguru** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:02 pm

In order to output both directory comparison results and file diffs you need to use command line with the /f option and save results to a file or output to the console (using the /o option)

rvlahov · Post by **rvlahov** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:59 pm

Think I am looking for the same thing, but not getting what I expect.

Looking for command line to recursively document the diff's in all files and directories, using the unix diff format, sending output to a file.
Command Line I am trying is:

>ExamDiff dir1 dir2 /f /c /o:rv-060210.txt /dn1:superman /dn2:robin /r2 /c //

I tried with and without the "/c" option

It is only giving me a file listing of what changed, not the text of what was changed, deleted or added.

Looking to get output similar in context to :
File | Report | View | Save Diff File

Additionally the /dn1 and /dn2 options do not seem to work

Thank you,

Rick

Post by **psguru** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:44 pm

rvlahov wrote:It is only giving me a file listing of what changed, not the text of what was changed, deleted or added.

For the text to be displayed, Full File Comparison needs to be turned on for the current session under Options | Dir Comparison. Alternatively, you can turn on Full File Comparison in the command line by disabling the currently enabled "Consider" options (For example, "/!s /!ic /!y /!u /!z /!dc /!dv" will force all such options to be disabled for the current comparison.)

rvlahov wrote:Additionally the /dn1 and /dn2 options do not seem to work

The /dn1 and /dn2 options are not meant to control how directories are displayed in output but only in the ExamDiff Pro window itself.

Alexo · Post by **Alexo** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:37 am

Apologies for resurrecting this topic.

I started EDP, compared two directories with full file comparison, but when I generate a report, it does not contain any individual file differences.

What is missing?

Post by **psguru** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:23 am

I'm not sure but it sounds as if you ran a comparison in GUI and then created a report form it. This is not going to work: you need to use the command line (see the whole thread).

Alexo · Post by **Alexo** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:59 am

This seems like a strange restriction.

I'll use this opportunity to request this functionality to be accessible from the UI as well.

Post by **psguru** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:05 pm

We have already in the wish list a request to "Create directory comparison HTML diff report with links to file comparison HTML diff reports". It's not currently planned for the next release.

Alexo · Post by **Alexo** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:54 pm

I am talking about the text diff, not the HTML diff.
It should be easier to implement since the functionality already exists.

Post by **psguru** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 1:30 pm

While it is easier to implement than in HTML, there's still a usability issue: in order to generate such report EDPro would have to recompare the directories, which might take considerable amount of time, longer than the original comparison: file differences have to be collected. Hence we prefer the user to explicitly specify the option for file details as a command line switch.

Alexo · Post by **Alexo** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:38 pm

True, however, please consider the alternative:

A user select 2 directories in Windows Explorer and compares them, looks at some differences and then decides to generate a diff report based on what they saw.

They now have to:
1. Open a command-line window
2. Remember or find where EDP is installed, if not in the path
3. Remember or look-up the EDP parameters, in particular turn off all the "consider" options
(Something like: "C:\Program Files\ExamDiff Pro\ExamDiff.exe" path-of-dir1 path-of-dir2 /f /o:diff.txt /!s /!ic /!y /!u /!z /!dc /!dv)

It still takes the same time to re-compare the directories, but this time using a cumbersome manual process, so the usability is even worse.

The options to view the differences in the UI and to generate a report should not be mutually exclusive! In my opinion, that is a much more serious usability issue.

Best regards,
Alex.

Post by **psguru** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:08 am

It's a reasonable request. We'll add the following to the wish list (along with your presumed vote):

Ability to generate detailed diff report (with file differences, like with the /t command line option) from the directory comparison GUI.

Alexo · Post by **Alexo** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:01 pm

thank you!

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