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Instructions for SFIND Copyright 1987 Eric Balkan
If you type in the name of the program, SFIND, without any parameters,
it'll tell you what you need to use it. Basically, though, here is what
you do:
1 - Decide what directories/disks you want to search and enter them
using the DOS SET command, e.g.:
C> set DIRS=C:\dir1;c:\dir2;.;d:\
Each directory name is separated by a semi-colon (;). A period means
to search the current directory, whatever that happens to be. The word
DIRS is used only by SFIND; otherwise the syntax is mostly similar to that
of the DOS PATH command. (The SET command allows an easy way for users to
tell programs about things that don't change very often.) If you want to
get rid of directories that have been previously specified, just key in:
set DIRS=
With no directories specified, SFIND will only search one directory --
the one implied or specified with the filename. Examples below.
2 - Having set the directories to be searched, you can now execute SFIND:
C> sfind -u "hello" filepattern outputfilename
The "-u" option means to ignore case (i.e., treat everything as uppercase).
The characters between the "" is the string to search for.
The filepattern is the file or path/file template to search.
The outputfilename is where the found text records will go.
Another option is "-m" which means suppress the messages that will come
out to the screen.
The following are examples:
sfind "555-1212" april.* out.apr
sfind -u "tomorrow is another day." g?.??? script.out
sfind -um "grapefruits, apples" \dir1\file??.* trash
If the specified output file already exists, SFIND will ask if you want
to re-use it. If no output file name is specified, the output records will
go to the screen.
One other thing worth noting: multiple spaces are treated as 1 space
for comparision purposes. That is, "tomorrow is" compares the same as
"tomorrow is".