Running luiquibase diff from the command line does not work

General Discussion
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Hi there,

I was drawn to Liquibase since it seems such a nice little tool. First thing I wanted to do is run “diff”, however, I cannot make it work. I am trying from the command line on Windows. Here are several problems I encountered:

  • In your example on http://www.liquibase.org/manual/diff you misspelled the command “liqubase.sh”. Since one normally trusts Help pages, I would never expect it, so it took me a half a day to figure it out.
  • I wasn’t able to properly specify command with all the parameters. First it always reject “” with the error "Unexpected value : parameters must start with a ‘–’"
  • If I omit “”, then it complains that the password is wrong since the password is the last parameter before command is specified, i.e. “diff”.

Liquibase seemed such a promising tool, but I cannot come to use it. If anybody could provide any directions here, the hope still might exist. Thanks.

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Glad you were able to work through your issue, sorry for the lack of help. The 's are a unix “command continues on next line” syntax that doesn’t work on windows. I’ll try to get the page cleaned up and more helpful to non-unix usage.


Let me know if you run into any other problems.


Nathan

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After spending some more time, I wasn’t able to run diff using Windows BAT file. However, I was able to run it directly:

[options] diff [command parameters]

Therefore, I’m glad to report that it’s possible to use Liquibase diff command this way. Thanks everybody who’s paying attention here!

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For DOS scripts you can use a caret (^) for continuation on the next line