Compare Files or Directories
Oxygen XML Developer plugin provides a simple means of performing file and folder comparisons. You can see the differences in your files and folders and merge the changes. You can also use the file comparison to compare fragments or files inside zip-based archives.
There are two types of comparison tools: Compare Directories or
Compare Files. These utilities are available from the
Tools menu or can be opened as stand-alone applications from
the Oxygen XML Developer plugin installation folder (diffDirs.exe and
diffFiles.exe).
Starting the Tools from a Command Line
The comparison tools can also be started by using command-line arguments. In the
installation folder there are two executable shells (diffFiles.bat and
diffDirs.bat on Windows, diffFiles.sh and
diffDirs.sh on Unix/Linux, diffFilesMac.sh and
diffDirsMac.sh on OS X). To specify files or directories to compare,
you can pass command-line arguments to each of these shells. The arguments can point
to file
or folder paths in directories or archives (supported formats: zip,
docx, and xlsx).
To start a comparison between the two
directories, use the following construct:
diffDirs.bat/diffDirs.sh/diffDirsMac.sh [directory path 1] [directory path
2]. If you pass only one argument, you are prompted to manually choose the
second directory or archive.
For example, to start a comparison between two Windows directories, the command line would look like this:
diffDirs.bat "c:\documents new" "c:\documents old"
Tip
To start a comparison between 2 or 3 files, use
the following construct: diffFiles.bat/diffFiles.sh/diffFilesMac.sh [path to left
file] [path to right file] [path to base file].
If three files are specified, the tool will start in the 3-way comparison mode. If only two files are specified, the tool will start in the 2-way comparison mode. The first specified file will be added to the left panel in the comparison tool, the second file to the right panel, and the optional third file will be the base (ancestor) file used for a 3-way comparison. If you pass only one argument, you are prompted to manually choose another file.
For example, to do a 3-way comparison on Windows, the command line would look like this:
diffFiles.bat "c:\docs\file 1" "c:\docs\file 2" c:\docs\basefile