Hi, can anyone help my question has several questions: I want to compare the two directories. I think this is an Nt file compare.exe. I also want to creat a batch file for this, sothat I can give this to someone sothat he can just run it without performing the manual task. I started off like this (test123.bat): rem compare 2 dir. and send to .txt file comp %1 %2 > test123.txt the command in dos C:\>test123 c:\test\*.dll c:\test1\*.dll Is there a way to automate this in the script, sothat it can answer automatically no. For example the question comes afterwards Compare more files (Y/N) ? n Is there a way just to show say the differnt date and size rather than the file contents? not required! not like this: compare error at OFFSET 21C file1 = EF file2 = 61 Compare error at OFFSET 21D file1 = 12 file2 = 13 rather like this: i just want to see file1 is differnt in size with file2 or file1 is differnt in date with file2 thanks in advance

In order to skip the prompt: echo n|comp %1 %2 falko wrote: > i just want to see file1 is differnt > in size with file2 or file1 is differnt > in date with file2 That's very different. COMP disregards DATE totally. What do you mean? BTW, to only get a message saying if the files are different or not, without the differences, supress the output and use the errorlevel (0 if files are equal, 1 if not). Something like this: echo n|comp %1 %2 12> nul if not errorlevel=1 echo %1 and %2 are equal>> test123.txt if errorlevel=1 echo %1 and %2 are different>> test123.txt -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br _____________________________________________________