Command line option for creating snapshot?

[kamileon]

I'm working on a system that needs to know if a set of directories has changed since the last time a function was run, and I'd like to use EDP to generate an HTML diff report from within my code, and then use XML parsing tools to extract the data from it.

I could just do a copy of the current directory structure every time, and diff the two copies, but I'd rather take a snapshot and diff against that. (MUCH faster.) Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to do that from the command line. Is there a way to trigger a snapshot, or do I have to do it from the GUI?

[psguru]

EDPro will automatically recognize a snapshot file and treat it as a directory snapshot rather than a file. So all you need is the following:

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examdiff <snapshot_file_path> <dir_path>

and then whatever options you want.

[kamileon]

Thanks. that'll get me halfway there, but how do I create the snapshot from the command line in the first place?

[psguru]

That can only be done from the GUI.

[mheydman]

I recently downloaded the trial for ExamDiffPro. I do not see an option to create a snapshot from the command line - but that is my ultimate need for the product.

I see that the feature was not available 11 years ago- just wondering if it was introduced somewhere along the way.

Perhaps there is another tool that can perform this task?

[psguru]

No, we haven't added this feature. To be fair, we haven't had any other requests to do this.