Compare two text files using command prompt

File comparison using command prompt Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 10 months ago. Active 6 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Improve this question.

DavidPostill 7, 9 9 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. Anoop Anoop 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Possibly duplicate fc.

See my comment there, now checked up on Win-8 as well — JosefZ. Is there any solution for this? Truly, being on XP at that time, I didn't look for. Try Powershell I am using Windows 7 — Anoop. Pleaqse edit your question to include unique. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. From cmd. Any additional characters are truncated, not wrapped. If you omit this parameter, the width is determined by the characteristics of the host.

The default for the Windows PowerShell console is 80 characters ; here is a huge script repository there the link provided with filter to file manipulation with PowerShell ; here is a Compare-Object Cmdlet reference.

Improve this answer. JosefZ JosefZ Magoo Magoo Consider to run twice with 1. I need only unique records which are in abc.

I do not see one for Windows 7. DavidPostill DavidPostill 7, 9 9 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. I do not see one for Windows 7" - the hotfixes were released in W7 was released in July , so we'd presume the fix was rolled forward. I tried the OP's issue on Windows 7 and got the same result. It would appear that it has not been fixed in Windows 7.

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