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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The diff, comm, cmp, and colordiff commands are among the many ways to compare text files on a Linux system. There are numerous ways to compare text files on a Linux system from the command line. This ...