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- From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: Wildcard expansion for any command, w/DLC source
- Summary: wildcard.com, expand wildcard before invoking a command
- Date: 27 Jul 88 17:04:16 GMT
- Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
-
- [ The supplied executable appears to have been compiled with Datalight
- C version 3.10. -- R.D. ]
-
- Have you ever gotten frustrated by MS-DOS programs that wouldn't work with
- wildcards or multiple filenames? I sure have, and have written a program
- to solve it. As an example, consider the FIND program that comes with DOS.
- It doesn't work if you give it more than one filename, as in:
- FIND "string" *.c
- or:
- FIND "string" file1 file2 file3
- With WILDCARD, these commands can be done! It works by executing the specified
- program n times, where n is the number of files. For example, the above
- commands would be done as:
- WILDCARD FIND -"string" *.c
- and:
- WILDCARD FIND -"string" file1 file2 file3
- The - means that the rest of the argument is passed to each invocation
- of FIND. For the second example, WILDCARD will do the equivalent of:
- FIND "string" file1
- FIND "string" file2
- FIND "string" file3
-
- Both source (for Datalight C) and a executable are included. Enjoy!
- It's hereby donated to the public domain.
-