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How can Powershell on Windows 7 diff two files?

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Mar 15, 20268129 views
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Can Powershell on Windows 7 diff two files on the hard drive? Sometimes a text compare is helpful, but otherwise just telling whether a file is identical to another file is helpful. thanks. Update: on UNIX, it is On Powershell, if I create file1.txt, containing the content "hello" and copy this fil…

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diff file1.dat file2.dat

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Edit: Apparently there is a built in alias so this works too: You can do this: This is some sample output: You can also do -excludeDifferent to only show the lines that are the same or -includeEqual to include the lines that are the same.

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