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From: waw5805@isc.rit.edu (W.A. Willis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Making AB20's FILES.Z more usable (UNIX'ers please read)
Keywords: UNIX AB20 FTP
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.143317.27542@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 14:33:17 GMT
References: <amuser.672554857@cutmcvax>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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In article <amuser.672554857@cutmcvax> amuser@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith AUG) writes:
>To save time trying to find files in AB20, could some UNIX programmer
>come up with a shell script that takes the FILES file and processes it.
>I would like a script that strips out all files uploaded before 1/1/91.
>
>However, more complex ones could produce lists of all files containing
>the letters xyz in their filename, sort them in directory order, remove
>all non-Amiga files etc. etc.... Who can come up with the best one ?
>
>Thanks...
>Amiga Users Group of Western Australia

I know that this isn't what you're looking for but I have the following
alias set up that does the pattern maching...

alias sab20 "zcat ~/.FILES | fgrep -i"

I can do a "sab20 filename" to search for filename in .FILES.Z