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Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:14
by monty_0309
Hi,
I want a shell script which compare two folders (with some similar files) and get new files and the files which are modified.
It will be good if the new and the modified files moved to third folder.
I have the following script, which identifies the new script and find the comarision of the files and store in log files. I am unable to get the modified file names.
Please look and help
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if exist compare.log del compare.log
if exist missing.log del missing.log
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b/a-d "C:\TFSworkspace\Scripts"') do (
if exist "C:\tfs\Scripts\%%a" (
fc "C:\TFSworkspace\Scripts\%%a" "C:\tfs\Scripts\%%a" >> compare.log
) else (
echo %%a >> missing.log
)
)
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Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:48
by foxidrive
What is the purpose?
Robocopy can copy changed files to another folder.
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:02
by monty_0309
Actually I have two folders
eg
C:\TFSworkspace --> which have latest files
C:\tfs\ --> which has some old files
So, out of these, some are identical files, some are modified files and some are new.
So I need these modified and new files to be executed in some test env.
That's why I need the list of files
I cannot use and software tool as this batch script will be the part of my ANT script.
please help quickly ..
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:47
by foxidrive
I wrote this once - launch it like this: Checkfolders.bat "c:\folder one" "d:\folder two"
Code: Select all
@echo off
del diff.tmp 2>nul
call :compare %1 %2
echo.
call :compare %2 %1
echo.
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %%b in (diff.tmp) do (
for %%c in (%%b) do set c="%%~tc - %%~zc bytes"
for %%d in ("%~2\%%~nxb") do set d="%%~td - %%~zd bytes"
if not !c!==!d! (
echo file %%~nxb exists but is different
echo !c! "%~1\%%~nxb"
echo !d! "%~2\%%~nxb"
echo.
)
)
pause
del diff.tmp 2>nul
goto :EOF
:compare
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir %1 /a:-d /o:n /b') do (
if not exist "%~2\%%~nxa" (
echo %2 does not have %%~nxa
) else (
echo "%~1\%%~nxa">>diff.tmp
)
)
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 16:08
by Aacini
Code: Select all
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
rem Build Original File array with modification dates
cd \tfs
for %%f in (*.*) do (
set originalFile["%%f"]="%%~Tf"
)
rem Process latest files and build New Or Modified list
cd \TFSworkspace
set newOrMod=
for %%f in (*.*) do (
if defined originalFile["%%f"] (
if !originalFile["%%f"]! neq "%%~Tf" (
rem File is modified
set newOrMod=!newOrMod! "%%f"
)
) else (
rem File is new
set newOrMod=!newOrMod! "%%f"
)
)
rem Process New Or Modified file list in any way you wish, i.e.
for %%f in (%newOrMod%) do echo %%~f
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 16:14
by foxidrive
@Aacini: It will have problems with ! in filenames also, correct?
I must be the odd one out because I have ! in a lot of filenames.
The line to handle NewOrMod is also limited to around 160 filenames @50 characters each, with the 8K command length limit in XP. W2K has a 2K line length limit. I'm not sure what Vista or Win7 have.
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 16:45
by Aacini
The version below solve the problems addressed by foxidrive
Code: Select all
@echo off
setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion
rem Build Original File array with modification dates
cd \tfs
for %%f in (*.*) do (
set originalFile["%%f"]="%%~Tf"
)
rem Process latest files and build New Or Modified array
cd \TFSworkspace
set i=0
for %%f in (*.*) do (
if defined originalFile["%%f"] (
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
if !originalFile["%%f"]! neq "%%~Tf" (
rem File is modified
set /A i+=1
for %%i in (!i!) do endlocal & set "newOrMod[%%i]=%%f"& set i=%%i
) else (
endlocal
)
) else (
rem File is new
set /A i+=1
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for %%i in (!i!) do endlocal & set "newOrMod[%%i]=%%f"
)
)
rem Process New Or Modified file array in any way you wish, i.e.
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /L %%i in (1,1,%i%) do echo !newOrMod[%%i]!
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 17:01
by foxidrive
@Aacini - That's impressive.
If I was were to comment any further, I would comment on variable names.
When I learned elementary programming it was pointed out that i, l, 1, I, o, O, 0 all make poor choices of variable names because it is hard to distinguish them in various fonts in many cases.
Of course Microsoft themselves chose %%i as the example in FOR /? as the epitome of poor programming choices.
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 23:40
by monty_0309
Thanks for the help !!
But, if I understand the scripts correctly, they are finding the files based on the modifiaction time.
As all the files are get from TFS on the local system, the modification date and time will be same.
I want something like fc command which displays the name of the files those are modified.
Re: Compare two folders and get new and modified file names
Posted: 26 Apr 2012 03:46
by monty_0309
Yipee !!
I have got it..
Just a small line to be added ..
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for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b/a-d "C:\TFSworkspace\Scripts"') do (
if exist "C:\TFSworkspace_pre\Scripts\%%a" (
fc "C:\TFSworkspace\Scripts\%%a" "C:\TFSworkspace_pre\Scripts\%%a" >> compare_scripts.log
if errorlevel 1 echo %%a >>modifed_scripts.log
) else (
echo %%a >> missing_scripts.log
)
)
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I added :
if errorlevel 1 echo %%a >> modifed_scripts.log