Ignore part of file name (usefull for version named files)

[Messij]

Consider fileV2021.txt and fileV2022.txt as se same file and compare it
Set V2021 and V2022 as parameter an ignore it in file name comparaison

[nestoroa]

I take evidences from several servers and I'm forced to keep the"timestamps" at the beggining of the name. I have to manually select these pairs of files whenever I have to run the periodical reviews.

For example:

• 20220105_servername_evidencename.txt
• 20211205_servername_evidencename.txt

If there is a way to filter-out part of the filename for automatic pairing with regular expressions, that would be absolutely great.

[vertigo220]

@nestoroa Pretty sure that's not possible, but if you have to do this enough, it might be worth making a quick batch file or ps script to do the regex and make copies of the files stripped of the dates, in new, separate folders and then call winmerge to compare the folders. Alternately, you could just compare them directly using regex in the script. I imagine it would be possible to automate the entire process, so you just run the script and it copies/renames/compares the files, outputs the comparison results to a single text file, then deletes the copies and displays the results.