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- Short: CLI based file hunter. Ideal for HD users
- Type: util/cli
- Uploader: br103@city.ac.uk (Nick Ridley)
- Author: Roland Bless
-
- "Whereis" is a utility which searches a file(name) on (hard)disk and shows
- you the path to this file. Because AMIGA's power is only revealed if you've
- installed a hard-disk (and AMIGA's commands are often loaded from disk
- (c:-dir)), some hard-disk users (like me) will loose overview about the
- stored files. If you have hundreds or thousands of subdirectories and don't
- know in which of them the program "DiskSalv" was, just type in: "whereis
- disksalv" and "whereis" will search through your whole active volume. You
- don't have to look for with "list" or "dir" manually. All files matching
- the given filename (-pattern) are displayed.
-
- "Whereis" combines a "find that file"-function with certain list functions:
- you can use it as "fnams/recurdir/mydir"[1] (or whatever that little
- programs are called) to collect the filenames and give them to "ZOO" which
- then can compress whole subdirectories or volumes. "Whereis" will do that
- job savely for you!
-
- ** Note: "whereis" can only be started from a CLI or SHELL (sorry WB Users!).
-
- [1] "RecurDir" or "mydir" (that's how the author (Stephen Vermeulen) named it)
- was released on Fish-Disk 284. It is recursive programmed and 5516 Bytes long.
-
-
- Features of "whereis":
- ======================
-
- + Case dependent/independent (switch -c).
-
- + Wildcards * and ? possible.
-
- + Abortable at any time (with CTRL-D or CTRL-C).
-
- + Interactive mode which allows to change your current dir.
-
- + Non recursive algorithm -> no problems with stack-sizes (not like LookFor or
- RecurDir)
- + Works also as "fnams"/"RecurDir". Use "whereis" with pipes.
- (archives all filenames from subdirectories for "ZOO", look below)
-
- + Can search on any file-oriented AmigaDOS-device and in any sub-dirs.
- Can be used as a "list all".
-
- + Displays date and size of files if wanted.
-
- + some other useful options.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 10392 5885 43.3% 16-Feb-91 10:55:40 whereis
- 28265 12159 56.9% 16-Feb-91 11:06:44 whereis.doc
- 838 425 49.2% 16-Feb-91 10:54:20 date.c
- 101 78 22.7% 19-Jan-90 19:18:06 date.h
- 618 218 64.7% 18-Feb-90 23:58:20 makefile
- 19589 6408 67.2% 16-Feb-91 10:53:34 whereis.c
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- 59803 25173 57.9% 25-Mar-94 18:24:34 6 files
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