Freddy File Finder: Finding Disk Files By Content
Arthur Collins
FRUSTRATED? CAN'T FIND A FILE IN A HURRY?
CALL FREDDY FILE FINDER!
FREDDY FILE FINDER, Inc. (916) 486-2557 Voice / Fax
6720 Fair Oaks Blvd. Suite 103 ACOL...@NETCOM.COM Internet
Carmichael, CA 95608 USA June 23, 1994 $35.00
___________________________________________________________________________
FINDER: Finding Files By Content Copyright 05/28/94
___________________________________________________________________________
FINDER by Art Collins of Sacramento, California based FREDDY FILE
FINDER, Inc., successfully finds text, word-processing, data base, spread
sheet, EXE, and COM files by phrase content. It matches input character
strings to the text in one or more files. The search can cover a complete
disk drive or diskette, a directory with sub-directories, or a single
directory. The output gives complete path names of all files for which a
match is found. The paragraphs containing the match can be viewed. Match-
ing can be on the basis of a complete input phrase, the words in the phrase
scattered throughout the file, or the same words "near" each other.
FINDER helps if:
1) You are up against a deadline and need a critical file to complete
the job, but can't remember what you called it, or where it is.
2) Data base research requires tabulation of all the files on a disk
drive or in a group of directories, which contain a specific phrase
or word, such as the customer or project name.
3) The names or locations of files on a disk drive are unknown, due
to unavailability of a key employee, or because the data base is
ten years old.
Disk drives are getting larger and larger. They can now contain
1000s of files in 100s of directories. If strict records of files and
directories are not kept, it is easy to "lose" files. Locating them by
content can be virtually impossible.
FREDDY FILE FINDER finds those "lost" files with a single command.
The program is user friendly, and input is simple yet effective. FREDDY
FILE FINDER finds your files and outputs the complete file paths to an
output file for easy reference now and in the future.
Art Collins, FREDDY FILE FINDER Inc.
--
acol...@netcom.com
Jon Machtynger
: NEWS RELEASE
: FRUSTRATED? CAN'T FIND A FILE IN A HURRY?
: CALL FREDDY FILE FINDER!
: The program is user friendly, and input is simple yet effective. FREDDY
: FILE FINDER finds your files and outputs the complete file paths to an
: output file for easy reference now and in the future.
$ ln -s FreddyFileFinder /bin/grep
Jon
David Hiltz
> NEWS RELEASE
>
> FRUSTRATED? CAN'T FIND A FILE IN A HURRY?
>
> CALL FREDDY FILE FINDER!
>
>FREDDY FILE FINDER, Inc. (916) 486-2557 Voice / Fax
>6720 Fair Oaks Blvd. Suite 103 ACOL...@NETCOM.COM Internet
>Carmichael, CA 95608 USA June 23, 1994 $35.00
> FREDDY FILE FINDER finds those "lost" files with a single command.
>The program is user friendly, and input is simple yet effective. FREDDY
>FILE FINDER finds your files and outputs the complete file paths to an
>output file for easy reference now and in the future.
Isn't this what the unix "find" command is for?
I find the ability to execute any command on a matched path and filename
(-exec) very usefull. Does you program do that?
-----------
David Hiltz
dhi...@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu
Network System Administrator
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
######&@&######
Jon Berger
> Isn't this what the unix "find" command is for?
Just a wild guess here, but the reference to COM and EXE files, and the
mention of diskettes, makes me suspect that this product runs on platforms
other than Unix, which might make it a little less totally useless than you
guys seem to think it is. Not to say it's the hottest software product
since Dartmouth Basic or anything, but there _is_ a world outside of Unix,
or so I've been told.
> I find the ability to execute any command on a matched path and filename
> (-exec) very usefull. Does you program do that?
I generally use -print and pipe to xargs, myself.
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-__ __ /_ Jon Berger "If you push something hard enough,
//_// //_/ jo...@netcom.com it will fall over."
_/ --------- - Fudd's First Law of Opposition