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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
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Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,West Germany
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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?