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- FileFind Amiga!
- Version 1.5
-
- Created by Ray Lambert
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- FileFind is a CLI utility which will search for files on filing devices
- using wildcards. The MS-DOS wildcards "*" and "?" can be used as well as
- the AmigaDOS wildcard "#". The drive specifier is optional and if not
- supplied the currently logged drive is used. An optional directory
- specifier may also be used which limits the search to the specified
- directory and all sub-directory levels under it. Multiple arguments may be
- supplied to search on more than one drive for a particular file, or to
- search for multiple files on multiple devices. Ctrl-C may be used to
- immediately terminate the search and return your CLI prompt to you. Version
- 1.5 is pure and as such can be made resident under AmigaDOS 1.3 or under
- AmigaDOS 1.2 using ARP.
-
-
- NEW TO VERSION 1.5: I have introduced my own pattern matching routines to
- this release. In most of the previous releases I was using a Lattice
- library routine called stcmp() which is really an all-purpose, general
- expression parser - it was not completely appropriate for filename-wildcard
- matching. For example, with Lattice's routine, if you entered "FF foo",
- Lattice would actually match "foo*", which probably was not what you really
- wanted to see. My routine will literally match "foo" if that is what you
- enter, or "foo*" if that is what you enter. The new routine was written
- specifically for filename pattern matching which makes it more appropriate
- for use in FileFind. It is a little larger than Lattice's stcmp(), and
- subsequently has increased the executable code size a bit, but it appears to
- be faster and certainly behaves more appropriately. The new routine
- supports the following wildcard characters:
-
- ? - matches one of any character.
- #x - matches one or more occurances of "x", which can be
- any valid character.
- * - matches any number of any characters.
- #? - a special case of "#x" which works the same as "*".
-
-
- In addition to the new wildcard matching routine just discussed, version
- 1.5 supports a pair of command line switches:
-
- -q : enables "Quiet Mode"
- -v : enables "Verbose Mode"
-
- When "Quiet Mode" is enabled "Searching..." messages (which normally
- appear to display the name of each directory that FileFind searches in) are
- suppressed. "Verbose Mode" is just the opposite of "Quiet Mode" and is the
- default. The two switches may appear anywhere on the FileFind command line.
- They may be intermixed between all other command line input thus allowing
- the use of "Quiet Mode" for some searches and "Verbose Mode" for others in
- the same invocation of FileFind.
- If you find that you prefer "Quiet Mode" all the time let me remind of the
- aliasing capability of the AmigaDOS 1.3 Shell. An alias can be easily
- created to invoke FileFind in Quiet Mode all the time. For Example:
- "Alias FF FileFind -q []".
-
-
- Usage examples:
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-
- Search for all C source files on "DH0:"...
-
- FileFind DH0:*.c
-
- Search for all files with the word "disk" in them in "c:"...
-
- FileFind c:*disk*
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- Search for all Workbench icon files (.info) on "DH0:" and "DH1:".
- Make the search on "DH0:" "quiet" and "DH1:" "verbose"...
-
- FileFind -q dh0:*.info -v dh1:*.info
-
-
- This release includes the source code for those of you who want to
- experiment a bit. The source will only compile with Lattice Version 5.0x, as
- it uses very Lattice-specific tricks to gain maximum speed and minimum code
- size (6252 bytes), however it can be converted to compile with Manx. See
- the makefile for compiling instructions.
- Anyone is welcome to improve/enhance FileFind in any way, however I ask
- that if you distribute derivative works that you give me some credit for the
- original work. I would also greatly like to see the cosmic improvements
- that you make!
-
-
- A note about the name: The first version of FileFind was released BEFORE
- AmigaDOS 1.3 which contains the program FastFonts. FileFind has always been
- called FF to minimize typing required to invoke the program. FastFonts was
- always called FastFonts until it was released with AmigaDOS 1.3 when it was
- renamed to FF. You must be aware of this potential naming conflict if you
- intend to use FileFind. If you attempt to copy FileFind to your c:
- directory as FF, and FastFonts already exists there as FF, the COPY command
- will silently overwrite FastFonts with FileFind without your ever knowing.
- I suggest that you rename either FileFind or FastFonts to something that
- won't conflict. I am in favor of renaming FastFonts because it is normally
- only executed once per session and that is in your startup-sequence file,
- however FileFind may be executed many times in a session and it will save
- you some typing if it is called FF. See the RENAME command in your AmigaDOS
- manual if you're not sure how to do this.
-
-
- FileFind is copyrighted to the author, Ray Lambert, and is released as
- public domain. It may be freely redistributed as long as this file goes
- along with it. FileFind may not be sold commercially without permission
- from the author.
-
-
- If you have questions, complaints, suggestions, propositions, etc., you may
- contact me at the following places:
-
- PLink: Analog*Kid
-
- U.S. Snail: Ray Lambert
- 415 Sanford Road
- Westport, Massachusetts 02790
-
- Phone: (508) 672-8232
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