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Batch script that finds the duplicate content txt files. Need a way to get the data within the content to another txt file.

Asked by: bsharath

Hi,

Batch script that finds the duplicate content txt files. Need a way to get the data within the content to another txt file.
As it gets the data of the diff txt file paths. Can i get help getting the content of the txt files into a txt file like

Txtfile name before the "_" underscore in the txt file name
Data in the tst file that was found different
Data in the tst file that was found different
And a line=======================================
Txtfile name before the "_" underscore in the txt file name
Data in the tst file that was found different
Data in the tst file that was found different


Can anyone help please.

Regards
Sharath

@echo off
REM Enable needed options
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
 
REM Set constants needed
set LogFile=reports.txt
set BaseDir="C:\Program Files\Sophos Sweep for NT\Hardware\"
set Filter=*.txt
 
REM Delete the log file if it exists
if EXIST %LogFile% del %LogFile%
 
REM Get each matching file (in all subfolders too) one at a time and process
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /on /s %BaseDir%\%Filter%') do call :DoFile1 "%%a"
goto :EOF
 
:DoFile1
REM Extract out the part of the filename before the underscore
for /f "tokens=1* delims=_" %%a in ("%~n1") do (
  REM Get each matching file to this base file name one at a time
for /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /b /on /s %BaseDir%\%%a_%Filter%') do (
    REM Only want to compare each file pair once, so check if we already hit this pairing
    if "%%f" GTR %1 call :DoFile2 %1 "%%f"
    )
  )
goto :EOF
 
:DoFile2
REM Compare these two files using FC and see if they are different
fc %1 %2 > nul
if not errorlevel 1 goto :EOF
REM If different then log their names
echo Diff: %1, %2>>%LogFile%
goto :eof

                                  
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2009-10-28 at 10:25:07ID24851883
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Answers

 

by: developedtesterPosted on 2009-10-28 at 14:02:27ID: 25688292

I'm not sure if there's a VB script that does this, but powershell's compare object gives you an indicator of which file has the difference.  If you can do a compare that gives you an indicator, then you can just 'grep' those out for each one.  Can you use powershell or find a comparison program that give you this type of indication:

function determineSubdirs  {                                =>
function determineDirs{                               <=

 

by: dave4dlPosted on 2009-10-28 at 14:24:22ID: 25688501

I'd suggest using Spacehound 4 (http://fineware.com/)

 

by: billprewPosted on 2009-10-28 at 19:02:01ID: 25690030

Grab the GNU diff utility from the following link,

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm

and then change

echo Diff: %1, %2>>%LogFile%

to something like

diff -C 0 %1 %2>>%LogFile%

Might that work?

~bp

 

by: bsharathPosted on 2009-10-28 at 19:33:36ID: 25690209

Thanks all.. I cannot use any 3rd party tools for this...
Its just getting the found data into a txt file. The searching part already the code does it.If the script can at the end of first script check the results txt file and get the data within it to a txt file also i am ok

 

by: billprewPosted on 2009-10-28 at 19:44:08ID: 25690263

>> If the script can at the end of first script check the results txt file and get the data within it to a txt file also i am ok

I don't understand what this means.

~bp

 

by: bsharathPosted on 2009-10-28 at 19:46:46ID: 25690275

At present the script the script finds the Differnce between each txt file whose names are identical before the "_" and logs the names into the txt file
After that if the script can continue checking the results txt file one by one and get the txt file path open it copy the data within it and paste it in the new txt file and header it with the file name before the txt file then thats what i want.

 

by: billprewPosted on 2009-10-28 at 19:51:59ID: 25690290

But are you saying copy the entire contents of the file to this new log file?  If so, which of the 2 files that were different are you wanting?

Or are you still expecting to only see the file differences somehow, although realistically doing this in a DOS batch file is not practical.

Do all the files found to be different go into a single new output log file?

~bp

 

by: bsharathPosted on 2009-10-28 at 19:55:19ID: 25690308

Yes
The txt files have just 1 line of data in each file
Which ever is logged in the current results file is the diffence... All of it

Yes all found different files go into 1 log file
as this

Filename before the _ Underscore
File data
File data
File data
Seperator by =================

 

by: billprewPosted on 2009-10-28 at 19:57:18ID: 25690316

Okay, I'll give it a try.

Would it be possible for you to post up a small number of test files that I could use, including some that are different?

~bp

 

by: bsharathPosted on 2009-10-28 at 20:04:36ID: 25690344

Sure attached is the zipped file that has the files
DevDcs040 is the one that has difference in the file data

 

by: AmazingTechPosted on 2009-10-28 at 20:53:27ID: 25690535

Hope this is OK.

Change these to your liking. No trailing \.

Set Folder=C:\Sample
Set OutputFile=D:\Temp\Results.txt

ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
Set Folder=C:\Sample
Set OutputFile=Results.txt
Set PrevName=
 
ECHO Checking files in %Folder%
 
for /f "Tokens=1,* delims=_" %%a in ('dir /b /on "%Folder%\*_*.*"') do (
    If "!PrevName!" == "%%a" (
        fc "%Folder%\!PrevName!_!PrevVersion!" "%Folder%\%%a_%%b">NUL
        if errorlevel 1 (
            ECHO %%a>>"%OutputFile%"
            fc "%Folder%\!PrevName!_!PrevVersion!" "%Folder%\%%a_%%b" | MORE +1 | FIND /v "*****">>"%OutputFile%"
            echo =====================================>>"%OutputFile%"
        )
    )
    Set PrevName=%%a
    Set PrevVersion=%%b
)
 
ECHO Done.

                                              
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by: bsharathPosted on 2009-10-28 at 21:03:24ID: 25690567

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