Powershell compare-object text files

Powershell Compare text files and show differences Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. Active 2 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 49k times.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The Input Object is being truncated by the default display. Shelly Tomar Shelly Tomar 1 1 silver badge 10 10 bronze badges.

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Difference between Html. Plus this operation simply obtains the file hashes, and compares the two hashes.

Your original script reads in the complete file, and then compares it line-by-line, so it is much less efficient. JW, that is all there is to using Windows PowerShell to compare two files. Troubleshooting Week will continue tomorrow when I will talk about more cool stuff. I invite you to follow me on Twitter and Facebook. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter microsoft.

See you tomorrow. Until then, peace. Comments are closed. Compare-Object checks for available methods of comparing a whole object. If it can't find a suitable method, it calls the ToString methods of the input objects and compares the string results.

You can provide one or more properties to be used for comparison. When properties are provided, the cmdlet compares the values of those properties only. Some examples use splatting to reduce the line length of the code samples. This example compares the contents of two text files. The example uses the following two text files, with each value on a separate line. The output displays only the lines that are different between the files.

Lines with content that appear in both files aren't displayed. This example uses the ExcludeDifferent parameter to compare each line of content in two text files. As of PowerShell 7. When you use the PassThru parameter, the Type of the object is not changed but the instance of the object returned has an added NoteProperty named SideIndicator.

SideIndicator shows which input object the output belongs to. When using PassThru , the original object type System. Boolean is returned.

Note how the output displayed by the default format for System. Boolean objects didn't display the SideIndicator property. However, the returned System.