How Do I Use Beyond Compare: Introduction to Beyon
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Forty things about Beyond Compare
Acknowledgements
Learn Beyond Compare in 5 Minutes
Quickstart: open two directories
Quickstart: open two files
Quickstart: move a file
Text Compare: understand the display
Downloads
Text Compare
How to use Beyond Compare for Text Compare
In Beyond Compare, what are unimportant differences?
Why no word-wrap ??
How to use Beyond Compare to confirm 100% replacement
Ignore Trivial Differences, Like Timestamps
Git
How to use Beyond Compare with Git
Do a roll-back to peek at your old code
Quickstart: Folder Merge
Why merge three folders?
Beyond Compare Three-Way Folder Merge Symbols Explained
How to compare two commits, both old, in Git
Git mergetool: merging three files.
How to recover an older version of your code with Git and Beyond Compare
Peeking under the hood at how Git does its thing
Getting better at Git
Find changes since last commit
Patches
How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare for Version Control
Scripts and the Command Line
How to use Beyond Compare in the Terminal
How to do an automatic backup every day
Write a Batch File That Will Start Several Syncs Simultaneously
Write a batch file that will start several text compares automatically
TL; DR
Table Compare
Quickstart: open a couple of Excel spreadsheets
Example: finding missing items in a pair of spreadsheets
Keys
Mismatched Columns
Longer example, opening .csv files
How to remove columns from a spreadsheet
Aligned vs Unaligned
Example: List of City Trees
Sync / Folders
Backup your entire computer (Part One)
Backup your entire computer (Part Two)
Backup, advanced
RegEx Examples: Filename Alignment Overide
Scan a lot or a little
Other
Peek
Binary
Undo
Colors
How to compare images
Report: Text Compare
Report: Table Compare
Looooonnnnngggg lines...
Binary: How to see the 1's and 0's
How to write your first script
How to find redundant or duplicate files
Minor Edge Cases
Shortcut Key
How to ignore parts of your file
Folder System Context Menus
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How to use Beyond Compare in the Terminal
also How to use Beyond Compare at the Command Line (CLI) or How to use Beyond Compare with scripts
At the command line, the usual way to run Beyond Compare is
in Windows: bcomp.exe @nameofmyscript.bc somefile.txt otherfile.txt
in Linux or Mac: bcomp @nameofmyscript.bc somefile.txt otherfile.txt
The easiest procedure is to go to Scooter's support page and shop around for a script that seems similar. Here is a four line script, followed by the syntax for running it in Windows.
.In the example above, the ampersand is used to continue a long command on the next line. The first line tells what we want to do (make a report of the differences in something), the second line is the report format, the third line says that we want the report to print to a text file called wipe.out. The fourth line "tigers1 <--> tigers2" indicates we have made this comparison before so the file specifics are in a saved session done earlier in the Beyond Compare GUI.
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Here is a five line script, followed by the syntax for running it in Linux.
In the example above we use %1, %2 to pass in command line arguments, in this case, the folders to be compared.
One general caveat for command line scripting of Beyond Compare: not all features from the GUI are possible as a script. BC was built to be a GUI program. The scripting is a tiny subset of the BC GUI commands.
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