Well, the problem was it was one of those side projects on his “one-day” list — you know how that goes! Fortunately, another good friend, Michael Corning, took interest in it, helped hold his feet to the fire, and also added some cool features himself. Dan Doris also took pity on Chris and helped identify...

By using the Compare plugin, you can quickly highlight changes in code or documents, making it an essential tool for programmers and writers alike. With these simple steps, you’ll be able to compare your files with ease and save time on manual comparisons. In addition, specific differences can be highlighted within the text of each...

This is useful for numerical text data that has leading zeros. By default columns that are numerical are cast to numeric types and the leading zeros are lost. To avoid this, we can convert these columns to strings. However, we must make a temporary jump to the year 2005 to talk about true standardization. It...

The /MT switch is to do a multi-threaded copy for a super-fast copy operation. It’s an optional switch, but extremely useful. RoboCopy’s Mirror copy mode (/MIR) is similar to Microsoft SyncToy‘s “Echo” feature. If l13Diff.ignoreByteOrderMark, l13Diff.ignoreEndOfLine or l13Diff.ignoreTrimWhitespace is true a file will be modified for a comparison. An info appears on the right side...