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 ...

The often overlooked Xcode FileMerge app lets you spot what's changed between two files. Here's how to spot the differences using the tool. Most developers of Apple software are familiar with Apple's ...

In this post, we show you how to compare two identical images in Windows 11/10. If you have two identical images and you want to visually compare the differences between them, this post is for you. In ...

If you have two similar Excel spreadsheets, or different versions of the same original spreadsheet, it can be useful to compare the Excel files and see how they differ. If the spreadsheets are short, ...

Let's say you've got a PowerShell script that copies and relevant set of documents from a server to your CEO's desktop. He checks these documents every single day. Religiously. These documents are ...

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 ...

Unix systems provide numerous ways to compare files. The most common way to verify that you have received or downloaded the proper file is to compute a checksum and compare it against one computed by ...

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 ...

For years I’ve kept my music files in a folder called MP3s. I set up the same folder on my wife’s laptop, the idea being that she’d store her own music there. Recently I decided to have a single MP3 ...

You can compare two versions of the same Word document using a built-in tool to see how a document has been modified.

My last post discussed comparing the high-level contents of two JAR files using a Groovy script and a 2011 post covered displaying a particular JAR file’s manifest file. This post illustrates the ...

Comparing different versions of Microsoft Word documents is helpful for identifying changes between drafts. However, you don’t have to do it the old fashioned way. Word has a built-in feature called ...