Is there a way to compare 2 files on windows?

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Is there a way to compare 2 files on windows?

nico-abram opened this issue 6 years ago · 3 comments

Ideally without requiring additional tools. I tried fc file1 file2 | diffr but it didn't work (I've heard fc is the equivalent of the diff command from linux). I'm on window 7 so I can't ue WSL, and I'd rather not have to install cygwin just to compare 2 files.

Answer 1 · 2019-07-02T15:45:02.000Z

This will not work because fc.exe does not seem to emit diff in unified format.

For a native port of diff, you can try

diffutils from chocolatey
if you have git installed, git diff --no-index <file1> <file2> works as well

Answer 2 · 2019-07-02T16:21:08.000Z

By the way, I am interested to hear a report of diffr working on windows 7 (which it is supposed to, but I did not have the chance to test yet).

Answer 3 · 2019-07-02T20:51:33.000Z

Seems to work fine with git. Sorry!