Short: Locate/process files. Small & powerful! Author: zodiac@darkness.gun.de (Ralph Seichter) Uploader: zodiac darkness gun de Type: util/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos I wrote 'find' because I needed a tool to find files (obviously :) which match a given name pattern. 'find' is able to search multiple directories, including all subdirectories, the current directory and its subdirs, or the current CLI command path only. The output can be formatted in a way which tries to imitate 'List LFORMAT' behaviour, and you can make 'find' create shell scripts for you and execute them on the fly. Please note that 'find' is pure, you can make it resident. As it is less than 3 KB in size, this is recommended. Check the executable by using the List command (you should see output like the following line) and modify the file protection bits if necessary: find 2760 --p-rwed 17-Jan-96 16:45:55 Requires 'dos.library' V36 (OS 2.0) or better. [...] USAGE EXAMPLES Locate all C source files on partition DH1: -> find #?.c dh1: Find all Icons in the current directory and all its subdirs, but don't display the ".info" suffix. -> find #?.info lformat %m Print file name stems and extensions as a formatted table. -> find #? RAM: lformat "%-20N|%3.3e" Get rid of all files with the prefix "foo" on some partitions, but don't go deeper than three subdirectory levels while scanning. -> find foo#? sys: dh2: bozo: depth=3 lformat="delete %p%n" exec Find 'Type' in the command path. -> find Type path Find all occurences of 'bar' in the command path. -> find bar full I hope that these few examples show some of the potential of 'find'. The possibility to create shell scripts and have them executed without further interaction is certainly very useful for many tasks.