Using WinMerge for file-diffs of local and remote-files within WinSCP

Eric Bartels — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:20:22 +0000

I use WinSCP for connections to remote linux-servers. WinSCP has a nice feature which allows the user to define custom commands. One pre-defined command is “File Compare”. It allows the comparision of local and remote files. The default-setting is not very comfortable. I simply added the following “code” as custom command.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe" /u "!" "!^!"

Now WinSCP uses WinMerge for every file comparison of local and remote files. Just set the path to WinMerge to your install path of WinMerge and you get comfortable and powerful file comparison. Additional command line arguments for WinMerge can be found here.

Here are two screen shots of WinSCP where you set the custom command.

Easy management of hardlinks and junctions on windows-systems

Eric Bartels — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:02:12 +0000

To allow an easy management of hardlinks and junctions via the windows-explorer Hermann Schinagl provides a nice shell-extension.

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Using WinMerge for file-diffs of local and remote-files within WinSCP

Easy management of hardlinks and junctions on windows-systems