Comparing ini files across multiple folders.

[kennysarmy]

I wanted to gather some information on which PC's have SIMS.net installed around the school in anticipation of replacing our sims server.

 

I put this in the staff logon script:

 

if exist "C:\Windows\sims.ini" mkdir \\servername\sharename\pcaudit\sims\%computername%

if exist "C:\Windows\sims.ini" copy "C:\Windows\sims.ini" \\servername\sharename\pcaudit\sims\%computername%\sims.ini"

if exist "C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net\connect.ini" copy "C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net\connect.ini" "\\servername\sharename\pcaudit\sims\%computername%\connect.ini"

if exist "C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net\connect.ini" copy "C:\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net\connect.ini" "\\servername\sharename\pcaudit\sims\%computername%\connect.ini"

 

I now have many subfolders under the \sims folder named as the various computers with sims on and in each folder are two files.

 

Is there a non-manual way to compare these ini files ?

 

Thanks.

[Quackers]

Ignore.

[kennysarmy]

Anyone ?

[Steve21]

Depends what you actually want to compare. If it's just size vs size etc (which should show changes in settings, unless it's really small changes) you could just do a script to file compare.

 

If it's line for line etc there are some programs that will do this like WinMerge

 

Steve