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- From: jpr@hp10.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Find File utility for the Amiga
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.154300@hp10.lri.fr>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 13:43:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: jpr@lri.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
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- I did one for the 1.3 (it works on 2.0 but of course cannot handle links).
- I has *ALL* the features of research you might dream of (regexp, bits,
- note, date, size...),
- even scanning only on files/directory, interactive mode and no sub-dir
- acanning,
- is of "normal speed* (I used C= routines to scan directories) and allows
- built-in functions
- (display complete name (path and name (that the original use after all
- :-)), echo (all you
- want, *very handful* to generate script (knows path+name or name only),
- filenote, delays
- (want a fast done slideshow ?), deletion, and, the *ultimate weapon* :
- it can do as many
- commands as you wish with the files/directoryes you wish (though only
- one at a time).
- (it can deal perfectly with blanks in file names, too :-)
-
- To make you an idea :
-
- find -f dh0: -e "Hey, that's file []. Looks like a picture to me.\n" -I
- *.(pic|iff) "Mostra {}"
-
- will find all through dh0: (-f dh0:)
- for file matching *.(pic|iff)
- if found it will say (with option -e)
- Hey, that's file mickey.pic. Looks like a picture to me.
- Do you want to process that file (y/N) ?
- the latter prompt being cause of interactive mode (-I)
- and if you answers yes, will display it with Mostra
- (the {} indicate the full name of the file).
-
- Don't be afrais by the option. Just type "find" and a one-page clear
- summary will
- be printed. And the manual (in English) is really helpful (tell you what
- you can do, lot of
- examples and yet everything is told).
-
- Try it, it's very handful, it's free, and the source in C is complete!
- It's cli-only :)
-
- I'm going to do an even more powerful 2.0-only version.
-
- If you're interested, email me and I'll send you the stuff.
- (I have not ftp'ed it cause it's 2.0 ignorant, a shame nowadays, but
- anyway if power
- is what you need, you can have a look at it)
-
- Now, your needs may very well do another find suit them better. I wrote
- mine for me ;)
-
- If name is your only target, Cedric Beust made one quick find very
- efficient. Email him then.
-
- Good luck in your quest.
-
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- Jean-Pierre RIVIERE | ///
- LRI - Universite Paris Sud | \\\///
- e-mail : jpr@lri.lri.fr | \///
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