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Help Info

The interface should be user-friendly, but one quick step-by-step example follows just in case you need it:

1. Select your first file (the top "open" button)
2. Select the second file (the "open" button at the bottom)
3. Click "Process Files" and wait for the results.

And get the list of the duplicates in the next window:

Now - little more...

By default the gizmo will strip all duplicate lines inside the two files, then will compare the two files line-by-line and will save the respective info in all these text-boxes. If you want to avoid the initial internal check for duplicates (which will leave all duplicates inside the file itself) - just uncheck the respective checkbox. Note that in this case you'll get all the repeated lines contained in the given file itself (the tool will treat as duplicates only the lines existing in both source files). In addition, the tool will generate several other files -- a version of each file with duplicates excluded, joined versions of the files with and w/o duplicates. (All these are because I need them for my own purposes. If you don't need these, just uncheck the respective checkbox)

The other option is little curious -- you may switch to "duplicate words" mode. If you do that, all the words from each file will be extracted first, then the usual comparison process will continue. To be fair, I have no idea why I added this, because I need line-by-line comparison here, anyway, it is here ;-)

Well, if you need more -- just experiment with the tool. Type some simple data in the file1/file2 edit boxes and play around...

And finally, if you find this gizmo absolutely useless -- please, do not hate me. I warned you at the very beginning that it is very specific gizmo...