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- List(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x in C:)
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- NAME
- List - List contents of a directory.
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- SYNOPSIS
- List listname Dir P=PAT/k KEYS/s DATES/s NODATES/s SUB/k
- SINCE/k SORT/s TO/k UPTO/k QUICK/s BLOCK=BLOCKS/s
- NOHEAD/s FILES/s DIRS/s LFORMAT/k
-
- DESCRIPTION
- List displays the contents of a given directory. By
- contents, we mean the names of the subordinate files and
- directories, not the file data. Typing the List command
- by itself with no parameters generates a listing of the
- current directory. It also lists any comments attached by
- a FILENOTE command.
-
- THE LISTING DISPLAY
- List displays your files and directories one per
- line, with all the protection flags currently turned on
- right next to the filename. The fields which may appear
- in a Listed file are
-
- name [KEY] size/type protection date time
- :comment
-
- Methods are provided for getting a selective listing
- of files, as well as suppressing/adding most of the above
- display elements.
-
- A description of each one of the above elements is
- given below:
-
- Name
- The name of the file or directory. This can be a
- device or volume name. AmigaDOS wildcards are supported
- 100%. The inclusion of wildcards eliminates the need for
- the P (or PAT) keyword. PAT is retained to keep
- compatiblility with older versions of AmigaDOS.
-
- KEY
- This is the actual block number of the file or
- directory block header. This is not displayed by
- default, you must use the KEYS switch to generate this
- element of the listing.
-
- size/type
- This element gives the size of the file in bytes, or
- the string "empty" if the file is empty. If this is a
- directory and not a file, then the directory indicator
- ("Dir") will appear here.
-
- protection
- The protection bits of the current file, in the order
- hsparwed. If any of these is disabled, a dash (-) will
- appear in its place. The protection bits stand for
- "hidden, script, pure, archived, read, write, execute and
- delete", respectively.
-
- date time
- The date and time of the last modification to the
- file or directory. The format of the date display is
- determined by the value of the environment variable
- dateformat. These elements of the listing appear by
- default, but may be selectively added or subtracted by
- using the DATES or NODATES keywords.
-
- comment
- The comment as set by Filenote. If no comment
- exists, this field will not be displayed. Note that it
- is displayed on a line by itself, preceded by a colon.
-
-
- SELECTIVE LISTING OF FILES
- The methods described in this section allow you to
- list a portion of the files and directories on your
- disks. Ways exist to generate a list of files that
- conform to a certain pattern, or that were
- created/modified before or after a certain date. You may
- also combine these options, for example, you may get a
- list of all files which end in .c and were created or
- modified since a certain date. These options are
- described below:
-
- Dir
- List this directory instead of the current directory.
- This parameter may be a filename, in which case the
- single file is shown. You may also use any legal
- AmigaDos pattern in this position, in which case the
- files and directories listed will be those which match
- the pattern, if any. (This feature was added to the BCPL
- List in the V1.3 enhancer.)
-
- PAT
- List only files and directories which match the
- pattern. You must specify the keyword PAT or its
- abbreviation P. This is no longer truly necessary with
- the expanded capabilities of AmigaDOS wildcards, since it
- is usually more convenient to simply include the pattern
- in the directory specification as described above. It is
- included for BCPL compatibility.
-
- SUB
- In this option the SUB keyword must come before the
- string. If spaces are in the string, it must be enclosed
- in quotes. With the inclusion of AmigaDOS wildcards, this
- keyword is really not needed. It searches for an
- occurence of the substring anywhere within the directory
- name or filename. Think of this as a short form of "List
- PAT *substring*" or a long form of "List *substring*".
- List will reject any attempts to combine the use of PAT
- and S. Wildcards in the initial DIR argument are matched
- and then checked again to match against the substring.
-
- SINCE
- While the pattern matching options above filter files
- and directories on the basis of their names, this option,
- and the following UPTO option, filter out files based on
- their last modification date. SINCE displays only files
- which have been created or modified on or later than the
- specified date. All older files are not displayed. You
- may specify the date in the currently defined dateformat
- (see Environment Variables) or you may use a word such as
- SUNDAY, TODAY, YESTERDAY, etc.
-
- UPTO
- The inverse of SINCE, this option displays only files
- and directories which have been modified or created on or
- before the specified date. Files younger than this date
- are not displayed. See SINCE for a description of the
- date format list expects.
-
- FILES
- Display only files, and not the directories.
-
- DIRS
- Display only directories, and not the files.
-
- CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY
- The options below allow you to alter the format of
- the display listing, or to send it to another file or
- output display device (that's usually a printer).
-
- TO
- You can specify a file or a device you wish the
- listing to be sent to using this keyword. If not
- specified, the default of the current screen will be
- used. If the file already exists then the old file will
- be replaced (and gone forever) while being replaced with
- this new file. If the protection bit is set on the old
- file LIST will not work. It is very useful to LIST TO
- prt: to get a hard copy of your disk listing.
-
- DATES
- Forces the date and time of creation to be displayed
- in the current dateformat. This keyword does not have to
- be used unless you are using the QUICK or NODATES
- keywords.
-
- NODATES
- Will not display time and date information, only the
- filename, size, protection and comment fields will be
- displayed. Using DATES with this will force the creation
- dates and times to display.
-
- QUICK
- Displays only the filename field, one filename per
- line, with no trailing spaces. You can LIST just the
- files or direcotries by using the FILES or DIR options.
- You can combine this with other options such as DATES and
- KEYS to selectively enable these fields. Under 2.x/3.x
- KEYS no longer works with this keyword.
-
- KEYS
- Displays the block number of each file header or
- directory header. All files are assigned using block
- numbers. This is how AmigaDOS keeps track of your files.
- Each file has a unique block number assigned to it. This
- is its address on the disk. The block number appears to
- the left of the file length.
-
- SORT
- Sorts the file and directory names into ascending
- alphabetical order. Case is disregarded. Note that this
- is an option available only with the ARP list. Sorts by
- DATE if you include the DATES keyword.
-
- BLOCK=BLOCKS
- Displays filesizes in blocks, rather than bytes.
-
- NOHEAD
- Suppresses the default "Directory..." header and the
- "x files -x directories -x blocks used" footer display.
-
- LFORMAT
- LFORMAT can be used to control the output of list,
- and especially to generate command lines to be fed to the
- shell. LFORMAT can is most useful when you want to
- generate a script file. To send the LIST output to a
- script file, you can either redirect LIST's output using
- the ">" or "TO" keywords. LFORMAT takes a string as an
- argument which can be any ascii string.
-
- The LFORMAT substring can be used multiple times.
- This allows you to use the listing name more than once
- per line. The second time you use the string the first
- relative path will be replaced by %S, and the path of the
- second argument will be used (BTW, a relative path is
- merely the list of directories you must traverse to get
- from the specified directory to the current one.) If you
- use three substrings, then the first will be replaced by
- the relative path, while the second and third will be the
- file or subdirectory names. If you use it four times, the
- first and third will be the relative paths, and the
- second and fourth will be the subdirectory or file names.
-
- To include the output of List in this string, you can
- use the "%S" sequence under 1.3 or 2.x/3.x as follows:
-
- "%S" Filename
- "%S%S" Pathname/Filename
- "%S%S%S" Pathname/FilenamePathname
- "%S%S%S%S" Pathname/FilenamePathname/Filename
-
- The following information may be substituted for the
- string as output and is for 2.x/3.x Only:
-
- %A :Attributes (protection flags)
- %B :Size of file in blocks
- %C :Comments attached to the file
- %D :Date of file creation or last update
- %F :The complete absolute path (starting with the
- volume name)
- %K :Key block number
- %L :Length of the file in bytes
- %N :Name of the file
- %P :The relative path(starting at the current directory)
- %T :Time of creation or last update
-
- The following information may be substituted for the
- string as output and is for 2.1/3.x Only:
-
- %E :Extension only (the part of the filename after the
- last period)
- %M :Filename minus the extension (everything up to
- the last period)
- ALL :Lists the contents of all the subdirectories of the
- specified directory, as well as the directory itself.
-
- The %S's may be separated by spaces, other ascii text
- or nothing, as above. Here is an example of LFORMAT that
- will create a script to Type each file:
-
- List LFORMAT="Type %S%S"
-
- Of course, to use this, you must save it in a file
- using TO or one of the IO Redirection operators ('>',
- '>>'). If you are using 2.x/3.x, you can also pipe the
- output of List directly into the Execute command.
-
- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- The List uses the same dateformat variable as used by
- the Date command, and in essentially the same way. If it
- is not defined, or if it has an illegal value, the
- default AmigaDOS display and input is used. Otherwise,
- the display and the input of dates is determined as
- follows:
-
- 0 AmigaDOS format DD-MMM-YY.
-
- 1 International format YY-MM-DD.
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- 2 U.S. format MM-DD-YY.
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- 3 Canada DD-MM-YY
-
- If you prefix the above numbers with a dash, then the
- display of names like TODAY, MONDAY, FUTURE, etc., will
- be disabled and the format string as defined above will
- be used exclusively. Note that this governs the format
- that List expects as input as well as the format List
- uses for display.
-
- EXAMPLES
-
- 1. To display all files in df1: ending with the
- characters "#?.c" which were modified later than TUESDAY
- at 00:00 hours.
-
- List df1:#?.c SINCE WEDNESDAY
-
- 2. To output just the names and dates for items in
- the current directory beginning with the letters 'stuff'
- that were created or last updated on or before April 16,
- 1967. Sent the output out to a file called 'StuffOut' in
- the Ram:T directory.
-
- LIST stuff#? QUICK DATES UPTO 16-Nov-67 TO Ram:T/StuffOut
-
-
- 3. To list the information about the contents of the
- current CLI directory.
-
- LIST
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- 4. To print the block number of all the files in the
- current directory.
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- LIST KEYS to PRT:
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- or
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- LIST > PRT: KEYS
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- 5. To display the information about the files in the
- directory art/adult whose names contain the string
- 'girls'
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- LIST art/adult/#?girls#?
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- (note: Information about both 'Really Ugly Girls' and
- PrettyGirls would be displayed)
-
-
- 6. To set the pure bit of every file in the stuff:
- directory.
-
- LIST >RAM:ThisFile stuff:#? LFORMAT "protect %S +p"
-
- (now you have a file called Ram:ThisFile which contains
- the commands to set the PROTECT bit on all the files in the
- stuff: directory. Now, just EXECUTE RAM:ThisFile
-