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| Thread ID: 22067 | 2002-07-11 03:38:00 | Search Files Windows ME | thephoenix (850) | Press F1 |
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| 61501 | 2002-07-12 06:33:00 | in a command window, say you were looking for "xyz.abc" navigate back to the root directory C:\ <enter> dir xyz.abc /s <enter> note the spaces after dir and after the file name the /s tells it to search all directories, else it will only do the C:\ one If you do not know all the file name, use wildcards, for instance if you do not know the extension use xyz.* In the next lesson you will learn to make batch files and run them from windows......for instance for copying only those files that have changed from a specific directory into a backup directory, overwriting the previous copies.. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 61502 | 2002-07-12 07:39:00 | ... and to wildcard a single character, use "?". Handy if you have files called thing01.dat, thing02.dat ... thing99.dat, and you want to look for 20-29, you can search for thing2?.dat . One "?" for each character space. Also good when you want to copy a range of such files. The way the wildcarding works in dir is just the same in copy (and del) commands. Of course before doing a delete using wildcards, you always dor a dir first. Saves you hoping that undelete works. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 61503 | 2002-07-12 07:52:00 | Dont you miss the days of DOS...sigh | godfather (25) | ||
| 61504 | 2002-07-12 10:00:00 | *Susan B runs off to make a brand new DOS Cardfile and copy lesson instructions into it* Thank you godfather and Graham, I enjoyed that lesson. Will try it out when I've finished this "session". Looking forward to the next lesson. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 61505 | 2002-07-12 11:03:00 | Oops To reset to the root directory, use cd\ <enter> note that DOS is case INseNsitIvE |
godfather (25) | ||
| 61506 | 2002-07-13 11:58:00 | I did the DOS search and even on my old 'puter it is indeed "blindingly fast"! Had lots of fun hunting down waist-deep files buried in the dungeons of Explorer then demanding that DOS dig them out. It did, without fail and within seconds everytime. Just as well I know the /p trick because some of the wildcards produce screens of files that I couldn't keep up with otherwise. Ready for lesson two in the morning. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 61507 | 2002-07-13 12:06:00 | tempted to teach "del *.*" but thinks twice as too full of fish | godfather (25) | ||
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