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- The FJD Underline Toolkit (c) 1990-94 F.Jorga All Rights Reserved
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- PROGRAM : _FIND
- VERSION : 3.1 / 1.1.94
- AUTHOR : Frank Jorga
- CONTACT : CIS: 100325,3500
-
- This Program is Shareware. It is just like it is.
- The Author warrants for nothing. You use the software at your own risk.
- You may use this as long as you (or your Computer) wants
- (whatever happens first). Feel encouraged to give this program
- to your friends, but make sure, this file is enclosed.
-
- As Licence Fee i *suggest* a CIS mail somewhat like:
-
- TO: Frank Jorga, 100325,3500
- I (like/dislike) the program cause ...
-
- Then you are a registrated user and i've got some input <g>
-
- Using this program in a business site requires further negotiating.
-
- Support is not provided unless the idea is of technical interest.
-
-
- Now here is how it works:
-
- _FIND serves to search and process files in three areas:
- 1) on all drives (-a)
- 2) on the current drive
- 3) on a path on the current drive (-p)
-
- You can limit focus:
-
- 1) only selected date regions (-dg, -de, -dl)
- 2) only files which contain a wordfragment (-t)
-
- As it is almost impossible to remember the parameter structure
- the program explains itself when you call it without parameters.
-
-
- Examples:
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- Find all files *.exe on the current drive
-
- _find *.exe
-
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- Fild all files *.c and *.h on the current drive
-
- _find *.[ch]
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- Find all files *.c on current drive and list with pathnames
-
- _find *.c -a -l
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- Delete all files *.bak on the current rive
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- _find *.bak -s"del $$"
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-
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- Save all available basic-Sources to a disk
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- _find *.bas -a -s"copy $$ a:"
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- Save all *.c files in the current tree to *.bak
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- _find *.c -p. -s"copy $$ $.bak"
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- Fild all files *.bat on all drives which contain the word 'smartdrv'
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- _find *.bat -a -tsmartdrv -s"type $$"
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- More than one fragment is not possible in the current version.
- Search is case-sensitive.
-
-
- Find all files modified or created after the 1.12.1993
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- _find * -dg1.12.1993 -l
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- Save all files to disk modified today. Today in my case is 6.1.92.
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- _find * -de6.1.1994 -a -s"copy $$ a:"
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- If you are not common to the wildcardnotation of unix, and you wish to
- go into hard stuff like deleting lots of files, i strongly recommend to
- list affected files first and add the system command later. This gives
- you a chance to check out first.
-
- _find * -s"del $$"
-
- for example has a function like the unix "rm -r" which wipes the
- whole disk. Anyway in some cases this might be just what you want to do.
- If you are not 100% sure about what you are doing limit the system
- commands to TYPE and COPY
-
-
- IMHO the useage of this program is a little cryptic but the additional
- struggle with parameters pays off well. This program adresses the
- professional user and programmer.
-
- Good Luck !
- Thanks for downloading the software. Nice to meet you.
- 6.1.1994
- Frank Jorga
- CIS 100325,3500
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