I am doing some backup and restore testing and was wondering if there was a good freeware app out there that would let me say "Compare \\server\restores_path To \\Production\Path" and show files that ...

Comparing bodies of text is not something most folks would want to do, ever. However, wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that makes life easier for those who do this regularly? We agree, and we’re ...

Here is a complete guide showing different methods to compare two folders on your Windows 11/10 PC. If you have two or more identical folders and want to find out the differences between the two, this ...

Programmers have used diff utilities for years. In brief: A diff utility lets you input two files, then the program calculates exactly where the files contain changes. Diffing is the basis of such ...

The operation of matching two files to each other to find out where any differences might occur. File compare programs have existed since day one in the computer business, initially as command line ...

Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2012 series. Every weekday from mid June through mid August, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite ...

As hard drives start to get bigger, it becomes more and more convenient to become digital packrats, stuffing files left, right and center into folders and assuming that they will be safe forever. But ...

You often may need to compare one version of a file to an earlier one or check one file against a reference file. Linux provides several tools for doing this ...

The Linux comm command makes it easy to compare a couple text files and determine if they both contain the same lines -- whether the file contents are sorted or not. The comm command on Linux systems ...

Editor’s Note: All this week, Macworld editors will report from the Macworld Expo show floor on meetings with Mac developers, new product announcements, and anything else that catches their eye. One ...