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Compares two files and displays the differences between
them. fc [/a] [/b] [/c] [/l] [/lbn]
[/n] [/t] [/u] [/w] [/nnnn] [drive1:][path1]filename1
[drive2:][path2]filename2 fc /b [drive1:][path1]filename1 [drive2:][path2]filename2 Parameters /a Abbreviates the output of an ASCII comparison. Instead of displaying all
the lines that are different, fc displays only the first and last line
for each set of differences. /b Compares the files in binary mode. Fc compares the two files byte
by byte and does not attempt to resynchronize the files after finding a
mismatch. This is the default mode for comparing files that have extensions
of .exe, .com, .sys, .obj, .lib, or .bin. /c Ignores the case of letters. /l Compares the files in ASCII mode. Fc compares the two files line by
line and attempts to resynchronize the files after finding a mismatch. This
is the default mode for comparing files that do not have extensions of .exe,
.com, .sys, .obj, .lib, or .bin. /lbn Sets the number of lines for the internal line buffer. The default length
of the line buffer is 100 lines. If the files being compared have more than
this number of consecutive differing lines, fc cancels the comparison.
/n Displays the line numbers during an ASCII comparison. /t Does not expand tabs to spaces. The default behavior is to treat tabs as
spaces, with stops at each eighth character position. /u Compares files as Unicode text files. /w Compresses white space (tabs and spaces) during the comparison. If a line
contains many consecutive spaces or tabs, the /w switch treats these
characters as a single space. When used with the /w switch, fc
ignores (and does not compare) white space at the beginning and end of a
line. /nnnn Specifies the number of consecutive lines that must match before fc
considers the files to be resynchronized. If the number of matching lines in
the files is less than this number, fc displays the matching lines as
differences. The default value is 2. [drive1:][path1]filename1 Specifies the location and name of the first file you want to compare. [drive2:][path2]filename2 Specifies the location and name of the second file you want to compare. |