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From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: wilcard pattern matching, other questions...
Message-ID: <20AVDWK@dri.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 06:44:43 GMT
Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Developement Center
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I inadvertantly created an lharc archive that contains all *.*
(or #?.#?) files on my disk but I meant it to include ALL files.
Since this file is extremely large and has already been sent to its
destination I was wondering if there was any way to recursively
identify all the files I missed that DON'T match *.* so that I can
create a supplementary archive instead of a completely new one?  This 
question is not actually lharc specific.  I realized that I was
not able to do things that are quite simple under unix and msdos.
I have arp shell and probably most of the little utilities that
come down the line (most that I have probably forgotten what they do!).
I spend all my time on other systems and I have suddenly discovered
what a novice I am with AmigaDOS even after a few years.  

So, I need suggestions for tools or shells that can do the following:

1. Is there a "not this but everything else" utility?
2. How do I change protection bits recursively.
3. Is there something like an "xcopy" command (or something to mark the
   archive bit)?
4. I was wishing that I could do more with piping from stndin like the
  "I" flag in zoo allows.  Few commands would allow that.
5. Is there a clone of unix "find"?  I have several finds but they don't
   do what I want.


Thanks for any tips!

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Jimmy Liberato   liberato@dri.com
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