Reputation: 2286

Comparing large xml files

could anyone assist me with this. I need to compare two beefy xml files 40mb each (ok not that beefy), but notepad++ croaks on this. Can anyone suggest something that will help (windows only).

I read a similar thread: Text editor to open big (giant, huge, large) text files

but this only talks about opening large files. Comparing and opening are 2 very different animals. Can anyone suggest anything that will help

Thanks Craig

Upvotes: 4

Answers (6)

Charitha Goonewardena

Reputation: 4724

Could easily compare with vs code. no need to download plugins or anything, comes with the default package. Just drag and drop the files you want to compare and select the option as compare with selected.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Podlejska

Reputation: 331

I use WinDiff for such a purpose. It was installed on my windows7 machine and comes from Microsoft (so its free). It's 64Bit application and performs very well.

Upvotes: 0

Cerebrus

Reputation: 25775

I always use DiffMerge or ExamDiff (Pro version) for my Diff needs. I haven't tried them with files larger than 2 MB, but you might want to give them a try.

Upvotes: 7

l0b0

Reputation: 58918

kDiff3 worked fine for me to compare files greater than 10 MB - It's quite light-weight.

Upvotes: 0

Matthew Scharley

Reputation: 132394

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm (command line)
http://winmerge.org/ (GUI)

Upvotes: 3

Icebob

Reputation: 1206

c:\WINDOWS\system32\fc.exe <firstfile> <secondfile>

? :)

Upvotes: 4

Comparing large xml files

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