Compare-Object - Powershell 1.0 CmdLet

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Compare-Object

Description
Compare the properties of objects

Usage


Options


Example(s)
Compare the content of two text files:

PS C:\>compare-object -referenceobject $(get-content C:\file1.txt) $(get-content C:\file2.txt)

Compare the processes running before and after starting a copy of notepad.exe, using Get-Process to retrieve the processes running and store them in a variable:

 PS C:\>$proc_before = get-process
 notepad
 $proc_after = get-process
 compare-object -referenceobject $proc_before -differenceobject $proc_after