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- Usage: c:\src\findfile.exe [[directory] [-option ...] [-p] ...]
- File finding utility. Copyright (c) 1990 Stephen J Doyle.
- (steved@inmos.co.uk)
- Options:
- -n (-name) - Wildcard file specification to find
- -x (-xd) - Comma separated list of subdirectories not searched
- -s (-sort) - Sort by file extension before name
- -r (-rev) - Reverse order of sort
- -t (-type) ftype - Also search for files with 'ftype' attributes
- [ftype can contain h(idden), s(ystem), d(irectory) or * (all)]
- -d (-date) datex - Search for files matching date/time expression
- -min size[km] - Search for files >= size[km] bytes
- -max size[km] - Search for files <= size[km] bytes
- -p (-print) - Print all files matching search criteria
- -ls - Display file attributes and size (in K bytes)
- -LS listoptions - Display file details given by listoptions
- [listoptions can contain d(ate), t(ime), s(ize in bytes),
- k (size in Kbytes), m (size in Mbytes) or a(ttributes)]
- -? (-help) - Display (this) help text
- options can be switched off using a trailing - e.g. -sort-
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- Options can be used multiple times overriding previous settings.
- Multiple use of -print causes multiple file finding operations.
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- A file specification (using -name) or directory specification (using -xd)
- may contain * or ? wildcard characters in any position.
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- A date expression (datex) is a string of the form [comp]datetime
- comp specifies a comparison operation on the file date/time
- comp is one of: !=, ne, not equal
- ge, greater or equal(default)
- le, less than or equal
- gt, g, greater than
- lt, l, less than
- ==, eq, =, e. equal
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- datetime is of the form 21-08-1990-23:44:16
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- If no value is given between field seperators the value
- defaults to the equivalent current date/time value.
- '*' for a field matches any value.
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