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Verifying file size
Name: Lightspeed Date: February 13, 2001 at 16:45:27 Pacific
Comment:
Is there a command that will let me verify the size of one file against another. I use 2 HD (soon 3) and i want to create a batch file that will check one directory against another for files of the same size (presumably the same), so that i can detect and weed out double entries.
You mean that you want to "file compair" (fc) and act on the result? Here is a quick dirty way to check every file in a directory, no sub directories though. FOR %F IN (*.*) DO IF EXIST [other dir]\%F FC %F [orther dir]\%F and act on the errorlevel, or dump FCs output to a file and do a find on it for what you are looking for. Hope that helps, if not email me drscriptt@yahoo.com and I'll try to give you more.
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