windows comp command in batch script: remove prompts

Question

Every time I use the Windows comp command, a message containing:

Compare more files (Y/N) ? 

is shown. Can I avoid it by typing N by default?

thanks

Spencerianism

Answer 1

You could also consider using another, also built-in, command, FC. It can perform binary comparison (you need to specify the /B switch: FC /B file1 file2), which seems closer to what COMP does, although the results are still displayed in a different format.

Anyway, it doesn't prompt you for more files to compare, it just does the job and terminates.

Isaiah

Answer 2

You can pipe an N in there:

echo N | comp file1.txt file2.txt

Wozniak

+1 - It will still show the Compare more files (Y/N)? prompt, but it will also be answered with 'N'. – Phosphocreatine