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Article #2207Re: Review of "ff"
From: Udo Hafermann
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1989 09:36
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1989 09:36
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Some time ago, I wrote a little filefind tool which expects a path plus filename as argument and searches from that directory downwards. The filename may contain TOS-style wildcards (no regexps, sorry) and the files found are returned on stdout. There is an option to let ff simply return an appropriate exit status. I find this very useful under a shell, especially if you have a backquote mechanism as in msh (e.g., "rm `ff 'd:\hugo\*.tmp'`"). To find a file on any of n drives, you will have to call ff n times. Anyone interested?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!unido!infbs!hafer From: hafer@infbs.UUCP (Udo Hafermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Review of "ff" Keywords: file finder Message-ID: <1308@infbs.UUCP> Date: 3 Jul 89 09:36:36 GMT References: <1119@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <2484@water.waterloo.edu> Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,West Germany Lines: 8