File comparison is the process of comparing the contents of files, finding their common contents and their differences, usually using an automated tool
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How does the Raspberry Pi stack up? [closed]
The Raspberry Pi is capable of running a server provided the setup has the right packages compiled. This raises the question of how it would compare to a simple rack mounted setup, or even just your ...
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How do I test network performance between server and smart-devices
I am currently working on a test use case where I need to test performance (benchmark) between a server/computer and smart-devices (tablet, smartphones etc.). The benchmark I want to do is based on ...
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Directory contents comparer by file content, ignoring name
Is there an utility to compare the contents of a directory by file contents alone?
I have two sets of files, most of them binary same, but some of them different; but each files of a pair have ...
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Tool to help compare mp3 bitrate quality?
So I've got 2 mp3 files
320 kbps
192 kbps
However it's hard for me to notice any differences at all (it seems there's none). Is there a tool to help compare bitrate quality? I wanna find out what ...
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Do pressing “F5” and pressing “ENTER” when the focus is in the address bar have same effect?
Do these two things do the exact same thing?:
Pressing the F5 key
Clicking on the address bar (giving focus to it), then pressing ENTER key
I am asking this because I'm experiencing that the first ...
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Select values from a table and compare with other table values
I have the following two tables
A B C
x1 a1 x1
x2 a1 x5
x3 a1 x7
x5 b1 x3
x6 b1 x6
x7 b1 x7
x8 c1 x1
x9 c1 x7
I want find fields "b1" in table B, then ...
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Binary/Hash comparing files in different locations while ignoring folder structure in OSX
I need a way to compare files in two different sets of locations, preferably in a way that is a little more thorough than just the file name.
We recently got a new NAS for the office and have been ...
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hash-based asyncronous directory comparison
I am trying to efficiently synchronize two large directories via VPN over a long distance. Unfortunately I cannot install advanced tools like git or rsync on the remote server due to company ...
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How to compare two OneNote sections (*.one files)
I am syncing my OneNote notebooks using Cubby (something like Dropbox) and sometimes, it generates "conflicts", i.e. suddenly there are two sections like this:
MyNotes.one
MyNotes (conflict at ...
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Comparing part of a filename in a windows batch file
Consider this script:
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "tokens=2 delims=." %%G in ("%1") do set partial_name = %%G
if partial_name GEQ 9200 ( move I:\rosa\transfertmp\%1 L:\OSLDos\Tmp\ ) else ...
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What is a simple file compare tool? (equal or not) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Binary Diff Tools On Windows
I'm looking for a very simple tool that compares two files and tells me if they are binary equal or not. I'm not interested in specific ...
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EXCEL populate a list of sunday's dates and ignore the sundays in an exception list
Hi i'm working on a sheet which i have to populate with sundays dates, and make sure that dates from an exception list don't be present in my final list
Goal: is to have the list of dates of only ...
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How to make compressed iso images?
I have a disk image file (iso) which is about 2.5GB, but when I mount and extract it, 13GB of files comes out. It means that it strongly compressed. I have UltraIso 9.5 but, it can not compress it as ...
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Remove difference b/w PC and Unix Text in beyond compare
My problem is I'm try to compare two folders which are almost same but some little difference.
But when I compare both of the folders then it shows difference in each file.
When i open the file its ...
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bash and arithmetic comparison: double quotes or not?
when comparing two integers in bash, do we have to put double quotes ?
In the official document http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/comparison-ops.html I can read that double quotes should appear every ...
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Compare cells based on dropdown
I have multiple products, each with various features. I would like to choose a product from a dropdown list and then populate its features below, then do the same for a second product next to it.
My ...
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How can I get a diff-like comparison of two files without the “change” sections?
I have two files that I would like to compare in terms of additions and deletions only. For example, if I diff these two files:
start
old
old
old
end
and:
start
old
old but now new
new
new
end
I ...
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How to automatically create comparison pictures for a transcoded video file?
How do one automatically/easily create a "before-after" comparison of two video file, where one file is the transcoded version of the other, in terms of several still images? Each pair would be ...
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Could it be sane to use Windows Server 2012 as desktop [closed]
what about using it on desktop? I've got enough strong PC with intel core i7 and 8GB Ram so what should I think about: why not?
Were looking about major differences compared to windows 8, found less.
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Comparison of numbers in Windows command line
How to compare two numbers if they are greater than 32 bit integer in dos in a 32 bit system? The two numbers are the size of folders in bytes. Can somebody help me please?
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Command-line option to compare 2 images in FastStone Image Viewer
I find FastStone Image Viewer a useful freeware to compare 2 images side by side, by selecting the images (by holding down Ctrl and clicking) in its Browser view, then pressing P.
Is there a ...
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Difference between folders
How can I compare recursively 2 folders with same structure.
With using diff or git diff from bash command line?
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How to do a binary compare of multiple folders?
I have >100 folders that I would like to compare. I don't want to merge, but simply make sure that the content of those folders are the same. How can I do this on Windows and without Beyond Compare?
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Comparing two strings in Excel [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
if Excel row contains particular words, return that row or highlight that row or give Y/N for that row
I have two Columns with Company Names and I want to find out which ...
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Comparing images
I'm making a website for a company, only the previous webmaster resized all the images and pasted a watermark on them in the bottom right corner. Now I've got this huge 64GB folder with photos in ...
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Comparing files for similarities
Is there a standard Linux tool that looks for similarities between two files? The diff tool works best comparing files that are mostly the same, and outputs where they differ. I'm looking for a tool ...
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How can I compare two files, from a website, on the command line?
I need to do the following: Basically, I want to be able to compare two text (or text-equivalent, i.e. not binary) files which are held on a website, e.g.:
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Compare Excel files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I compare two Excel documents?
I have two Excel sheets and I need to compare them. Does anybody have an idea how to get the differences? I need to know which rows ...
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Folder diff tool that allows easy comparison of large number of files
I'm trying to verify that a tool to export data from one source control platform to a second works properly before we spend money on a non-demo license. The demo version only exports the first half ...
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Comparing two spreadsheets and returning similarities
The challenge I am presented with is this:
I have two spreadsheets where I need to compare one column of data from each spreadsheet.
How do I do the comparison and have the same numbers from both ...
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How does the OCR in Abbyy Finereader Pro 11 (Win) compare to FR Express 8 (Mac) [closed]
I am wondering how the OCR performance of Abbyy Finereader Express 8.2 for Mac compares to the latest Windows version of the same program.
Is the Mac version really three iterations behind, or are ...
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View incremental diffs of my revisions to files using Dropbox
Sometimes I use a simple editor like Notepad++ to edit my webpages on Dropbox.
Notepad++, not being an über-editor or IDE, does not track file changes for me.
But Dropbox does!!
Has anybody ...
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Excel - How To: Two columns with titles. getting rid of duplicates, keep associated numbers. [closed]
I have two huge excel spreadsheets with music titles. One has an associated CD/Track number on it. There are several instances of a title having more than one CD/track number, and I would like to keep ...
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Is there a program that compares image files and reports if they are exactly the same pixel-wise?
I'm making a regression testing suite for some rendering software. I need to be able to load an image file (PNG or TGA, ideally) and compare the pixel values to a standard approved image.
I'd like it ...
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What will be Windows 7 boot time for C2D and i5? [closed]
Please tell me what will be Boot Time for the following configuration laptop.
Core 2 Duo (2.2 Ghz, 800 Mhz FS, 4MB, L2 cache) / 2GB RAM / 500GB HDD .
i5-430M (3M Cache, 2.26 GHz) / 2GB RAM ...
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How can I compare just the file contents of two zip files
I created these two zip files about 24 hours apart.
$ ls -l /tmp/*.zip
-rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 1401289 Mar 21 20:11 /tmp/inc1.zip
-rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 1401289 Mar 22 19:29 /tmp/inc2.zip
You ...
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How can I compare the contents of .pdf files, excluding filenames from comparison?
I usually use WinMerge to view the differences between files, but in this case it doesn't help. The files I'm comparing are known to have different filenames, which is creating false positives when 2 ...
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Is there any reliable face comparison software available to the public [closed]
I have two photographs and I want a piece of software to compare the faces and tell me if they are the same person.
I have seen it done in TV shows like CSI but I know they are prone to stretching ...
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ISO on DVD differing across platforms?
I have the 32-bit ISO of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and I burned it to a DVD (using Nero Express on Windows XP) to install in VirtualBox on my other computer (running Fedora 15).
The problem ...
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Windows Server 2008R2 - Standard or Datacenter edition?
Which one should I install?
I virtualize a lot, and have an access to my school's MSDNAA, where I can download/"buy" Windows 2008R2. All editions (with SP1).
Which one should I choose?
Standard or
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Check for duplicate files in two collections, ignoring duplicates within A
I have four similar large collections of website files. They are archived copies of a similar directory tree from different times in the past.
I want to merge them all to the most recent collection, ...
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md5sum of files in two folders
I'm trying to compare all the files in two folders via an md5sum in one command. Some like the following (bash) in Debian:
$ cd ~/FOLDER1
$ md5sum ~/FOLDER2/* | md5sum -c -
The idea is that the ...
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List differences between remote folder (sftp) and local one
I wish to find a windows program (preferably with GUI) that will compare recursively a remote folder (SFTP) and a local one.
I would like it to list all the files and folders that are different, ...
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Why using hexadecimal in computer is better than using octal?
What are benefits that hexadecimal provides? And is it really octal is less common than hexadecimal?
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GUI Software To Compare Two Files, Get “Clean” Export of Differences?
Is there a way to do a "clean" export of the differences between files? Not a diff, or even a formatted report... just a clean .CSV/.XLS/etc export.
This is for people that are non-technical; we have ...
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GNU/Linux substitute for the Windows-based TreeComp tool
I miss the TreeComp tool from Windows on Linux. Does anybody know about a similar tool for Linux?
I've tried Unison & Unison-gtk (slow and cumbersome), diff (various), meld, mc, rsync (immensely ...
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How to show linux “cmp” command progress?
Is there a way to show the progress when running the cmp command?
Comparing large files or partitions using cmp can take a while.
I have searched google and used man cmp, but failed to find any ...
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Know any file compare utility for chunks of text?
Is there any file-compare utility-software that can help me compare chunks of text from two text files ?
As in, I want to know what chunks of text that are in one file can be found again in the ...
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FileZilla as local files manager - comparing files and directories on local disks
Is there a way to open local directory instead of server directory?
Do you know if there is some plugin to make it avaible?
I would like to use FileZilla as local file manager just to compare ...
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Find missing files from multiple backups, regardless the folder location
I have 6 backups of my PC wasting a lot of space, on an external hard disk, because all of them are full backups (not incremental) of my PC, meaning that the majority of the contents are duplicated ...
