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From: richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain - VOS hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: How to implement WHEREIS as a 4dos alias?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.023248.6557@calvin.ee.cornell.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 02:32:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.152431.15843@linus.mitre.org>
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In article <1991Mar18.152431.15843@linus.mitre.org> dhf@tatum.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes:
>.  The superior wildcard capability of the 4dos DIR command make it look
>like a good idea to do a WHEREIS file finder as a command alias. The
>problem is to list out the full filespecs including the path. There
>doesn't appear to be an option to DIR that lists the full filespec.

I have never felt a need for this since I would use one of the many unix
"find" look-alikes (I like "stuff" personally).  However I felt ready to rise
to the challenge so here is my entry:

PPATH=iff exist %1 then ^for %%i in ( %1 ) echo %_CWD\%i ^endiff
WHEREIS=global /i /q ppath %1 

This will do everything below the current directory - a bit more work could
make it always search everything, like surrounding the whereis with a
pushd \ ^ ....^ popd

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Richard Brittain,                 School of Elect. Eng.,  Eng. and Theory Center
                                  Cornell university, Ithaca, NY 14853
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