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- FFF
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- John Deurbrouck October 15, 1991 (Utilities)
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- Purpose: A file and directory-finding utility that can search all directories
- on any or all drives for one or more target filespecs. Extended wildcards,
- size and attribute-byte information, and multiple report formats are
- supported.
-
- Format: FFF [/a] [drive(s):] [/d|do] [/h|ho|hro] [/s]
- [/l|t|w] name(s)
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- Remarks: The name(s) parameter may consist of multiple entries (separated by
- spaces) on the same command line. Thus, FFF *.exe *.com *.bat will find all
- executable files on the current (default) drive.
-
- In FFF the * stands for 0 to n characters, the ? for one and only one
- character; the period is treated specially as an ordinary character. Thus *.*
- and * both mean "all files," and *.?* restricts a listing to files that have
- at least a 1-character extension. Combinations such as *C*T*.* are permitted,
- facilitating finding files with a basename that has (in this case) a C and a T
- in that order.
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- All other parameters are optional and are not sensitive as to case or
- entry order. The /a switch causes FFF to search all system drives in
- alphabetic order. One or more drives may be specified, singly, in ranges, or
- intermixed, by entering a drive(s): parameter. This parameter must end with a
- colon, and included range(s) of drives (e.g. c-e:) must begin with the lowest
- letter drive in the group.
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- By default, searches begin from the root directory of the drive(s)
- specified; the /s switch restricts the search to the current subdirectory and
- its children. The /d switch returns directories as well as files that match
- name(s); /do lists matching directories only. The /h switch adds hidden and
- system files; /ho restricts the listing to hidden and system files; and /hro
- reports hidden, system, and read-only files in addition to normal files.
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- The default FFF report lists files and directories found under their
- parent directories and supplies file size, date and time, and attribute=byte
- (archive, hidden, system, read-only) information on each. File size and
- allocation size totals are also supplied and a storage efficiency percentage
- is calculated. The /w (wide) switch reports entries individually, five
- across. The /l (limited) switch lists number of entries and total and
- allocated filespace. The /t (terse) switch reports fully-qualified names
- only.