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The Issue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This post definitely isn’t “new” or revolutionary, but I was quite surprised to find the Compare-object helper in PS, and I’m bound to forget in the future… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of some recent roadmap work, we moved over to a new installer technology for some of our tooling. This came with some minor headaches such as validating we have harvested all the correct files. The first iteration of this was a manual check which obviously is prone is human error – aside from being mind numbing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t really want to use a third party tool. <\/strong>WinMerge <\/a>can perform fantastic comparisons, but I wanted something quick and custom. Ideally also not spending longer than 10 minutes creating any code!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first iteration was to do a recursive loop, pull out all the file names (Note: not the path) into 2 separate text files. The only “nicety” was I wrapped directory names in square brackets to give it some<\/em> organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The downside of this is that it only really worked for my sample folder with a few items. In production with thousands of files and nested folders this was plain chaos. Also I had to compare these files in a third party tool like WinMerge anyway – taking away the point of doing this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final version of my script aimed to only show the difference (avoid noise), ideally show which direction the change occurred using Compare-Object<\/strong> in PowerShell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Result<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • Do a recursive loop through the directory structure<\/li>
  • Output Folder names as [Folder], and recursively dive-down. This is a bit dirty as I didn’t want the full path (harder to compare) but wanted to differentiate when I dug down. YMMV.<\/li>
  • Output File names, excluding some files I didn’t care about (Like .tmp & .XML files)<\/li>
  • Do this for folder A and folder B, storing the result to a variable<\/li>
  • Using Compare-Object on these variables and outputting the result.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    Which provides output like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
    This could definitely be optimized and cleaned up for sure, and YMMV massively. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
    Overall, a few minutes in PowerShell and  I managed to save substantial time – and that was my only real goal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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