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Thanks. Now I have a different issue. If the two files are different but empty it is giving the wrong message. Is there a way I can check the timestamps of the files before I do the fc. fc T:\data\test.dat T:\arch\test.dat >nul &&(echo File already processed.. >>T:\ftp\test.log goto end) ||(...

Thanks !k. it worked. God I spent so much time on that....

What is the equivalent of unix 'Sleep' command in windows? I need the program to sleep sometime when doing the file comparison assuming that I could get big files to compare.

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How do I compare two files? fc c:\data\myfile.txt c:\arch\myfile.txt this is working fine. now i want to echo in log file if they are same. if they are not same i need to check the size of the file. if it is zero echo in log file. I dont know how to check the file is same or different. Any help is a...