{"id":3624,"date":"2010-11-24T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:52:46","slug":"how-to-compare-files-notepad-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/2010\/11\/24\/how-to-compare-files-notepad-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"How to compare files? Notepad++ to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been using Notepad++ for quite a while now, but have not dived into the various plugins to much yet. But today I needed to compare two files and had no available comparators, or&#8230;could have used Rational Application Developer &#8211; but that is overkill for comparing two Jython scripts. But then <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/npp-plugins\/\">Notepadd++ plugins <\/a>to the rescue. Found this blogpost http:\/\/www.cottonrohrscheib.com\/blog\/notepad-compare-plugin\/, downloaded the plugin and followed this <a href=\"http:\/\/bimoweb.com\/blog\/how-to-install-notepad-plugin.html\">simple how-to<\/a> installing it. Up and running in less than five minutes!<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hellem.org\/pic\/2010\/11\/compare_notepad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hellem.org\/pic\/2010\/11\/compare_notepad.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been using Notepad++ for quite a while now, but have not dived into the various plugins to much yet. But today I needed to compare two files and had no available comparators, or&#8230;could have used Rational Application Developer &#8211; but that is overkill for comparing two Jython scripts. But then Notepadd++ plugins to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13985,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/13985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}