![]() ![]() It used to be available in Linux-emulation software for Windows, such as Cygwin. I believe that, at least in the days when Win 7 was young, it was also part of “Windows Tools” along with other UNIX commands. ![]() In the Macs and in Linux PCs “diff” is one of the operating system’s tools. I think that several DOS commands were actually ports, from UNIX to IBM-clone Intel PCs, of “Terminal” line commands with their names and the exact way they are written somewhat modified. The idea in FC is the same as that in “diff” found in macOS, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, etc. Same as “diff”, “FC” is a very handy DOS file-compare application, at least for ASCII files (I’ve only used it with that type of files.). PaulK: Yes, thanks for pointing this out. (“$” is whatever screen prompt you get in Terminal, and the command is to be typed right after the prompt.) $ diff option_1 option_2 option_3 … file1 file 2 > difference, or else: Then the command with one or more of those options would be: ![]() One clicks on the space bar to move from the current page to the next one. That opens a list of options with the description of what each one does. and to learn about them and how to use them the command is: There are also different options in “diff” that make it possible to deal with binary files, mixed binary/ASCII, etc. $ diff file1 file2 | whatever > difference You could pipe the output of diff to some formatting utility to get a nicer listing of the differences, but I woldn’t bother: Where “file1”, “file2” are whatever the files are actually called, while the file “difference” has all the, well, differences between the two lists. two ASCII files), then you can open Terminal and type in the command line: If you can copy the two documents to a plain text file each (i.e. Nathan: “ I have two long lists of book titles I need to compare the differences between and see if one list has all of the titles from the second list or is missing any titles.” Then standardize the columns between the two Excel sheets, and then you can copy and paste the second Excel sheet into the first and then sort by author, title, etc.īy sorting by author you should be able to reconcile the variations between the two lists of publications. Once an Excel sheet is complete you can sort your list of titles by author’s last name, title, etc.ĭo the same for the second list of the books. I then go into each title and separate each component of the listing by tabs (title, tab, authors last name, tab, authors other name, etc.) Once the entire Word document is formatted you can simply copy and paste the material into an Excel sheet and each component of the list that is separated by a tab will fall into a different column. What I do when I have a problem similar to yours is to block, copy, and paste each list into a Word document using text only paste. If you did, you can sort your sheet by author and title. When you set up your Excel sheets did you set up one column of book titles, one column of authors last name, one column of authors other names, etc.? ![]()
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