Post by thread:[OT] Another 'DOS' command

Even better: dir *.exe /s/b > exe.txt The /b (barebones) removes the size & date/time info, leaving just the filename. Tony (Don't forget >>) {Quote hidden}> And of course one can then > (pipe) the result to a text file and > print out a luverly (sic) directory listing. > > > Colin > > -- > cdb, spam_OUTcolinTakeThisOuTbtech-online.co.uk on 16/10/2005 >

> Even better: dir *.exe /s/b > exe.txt > The /b (barebones) removes the size & date/time info, leaving just > the > filename. Or, to ADD information dir /x .. Which adds short filename (8+3) information at the start of the name. The 8.3 name is of course invaluable when using a keyboard to manage files with lonnnnnnnnnnnnng file names. With names in my 'interesting files' collection like - CHINA USA spam from Falan Gong - interesting - CCP Major-General Zhu Chenghu stated that China would attack over one hundred American cities with nuclear weapons______.eml - Alec Issigonis - Designing Modern Britain - Design Museum Exhibition Automotive Designer (1906-1988) - Design-Designer Information MINI AUSTIN MORRIS 1100_files - WW2 White racists supremacists discuss german and russian etc behaviour ww2 - fascinating and worth being aware of - Stormfront White Nationalist Community - Who was right Axis or Allies.mht - Schindlers list - story more complex than first apparent - The New York Times Books A Scholar's Book Adds Layers of Complexity to the Schindler Legend.mht etc I find this "useful". RM

On Oct 16, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Russell McMahon wrote: > The 8.3 name is of course invaluable when using a keyboard to > manage files with lonnnnnnnnnnnnng file names. > Bah. Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead (part of cygwin, but perhaps obtainable otherwise.) Filename completion and real regular expressions as well as unix-style filename wildcarding. Similarly on Macs, there are things that work much better from a unix shell than from one of the GUI utils... BillW

>> The 8.3 name is of course invaluable when using a keyboard to >> manage files with lonnnnnnnnnnnnng file names. > Bah. Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead This seems like contradictory advice :-) However, if there was such a shell available which ran under Windows XP and was free and gave me more net utility than what I have now I may well consider adopting it. But it wouild probably have to come to me and ask :-). RM

Russell McMahon wrote: >>> The 8.3 name is of course invaluable when using a keyboard to >>> manage files with lonnnnnnnnnnnnng file names. > > >> Bah. Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead > > > This seems like contradictory advice :-) > > However, if there was such a shell available which ran under Windows XP > and was free and gave me more net utility than what I have now I may > well consider adopting it. But it wouild probably have to come to me and > ask :-). > > > RM Wasn't part of MS's Services for Unix release a port of Bash? But I might be mis-remembering things again. - Marcel

On October 16, 2005 05:55 pm, Tony Smith wrote: > Even better: dir *.exe /s/b > exe.txt > > The /b (barebones) removes the size & date/time info, leaving just > the filename. useful when you create a batch file called weekly or daily by a task manager, for example: dir ---- /s/b | zip ---- drive:\dir\backup.zip ...but then again, for those of you who moved to linux, there's also cron.daily, and a script like: ls ---- | tar ------ /mnt/backup/backup.tar.gz ...to each, their own ;-P

On 17 Oct 2005, at 07:34, Russell McMahon wrote: >> Bah. Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead > > This seems like contradictory advice :-) But it isn't - ergo you're missing out :) > However, if there was such a shell available which ran under > Windows XP and was free and gave me more net utility than what I > have now I may well consider adopting it. But it wouild probably > have to come to me and ask :-). Go get cygwin, learn bash, forget the barbarism of cmd.exe. This may not, of course, apply to you but many people who think the command line is a degenerate user interface are talking about cmd.exe (or worse command.com). -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Russell McMahon wrote: >>> The 8.3 name is of course invaluable when using a keyboard to manage >>> files with lonnnnnnnnnnnnng file names. > >> Bah. Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead 1) File and directory name completion is available in cmd.exe (see other post). Someone who's "bashing" cmd.exe should know this :) > However, if there was such a shell available which ran under Windows XP > and was free and gave me more net utility than what I have now I may > well consider adopting it. 2) You can enhance the usefulness of cmd.exe quite a bit by installing some of the *ix command line utilities that come with MinGW or Cygwin in your path. (Both are Windows ports of essential elements of the general *ix environment.) 3) IIRC, both of these contain also a couple of command shells like bash. Gerhard

On Oct 17, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote: > [cmd.exe filename completion] > ^ in the case where what you have typed so far would be ambiguous. > No capability of listing all the matches for what you have so far? Completion without local "help" (alternatives listing) has always seemed a bit useless to me (although I guess partial completion is an intermediate step...) BillW

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, William Chops Westfield wrote: > On Oct 16, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Russell McMahon wrote: > >> The 8.3 name is of course invaluable when using a keyboard to >> manage files with lonnnnnnnnnnnnng file names. >> > Bah. Become enlightened, and get a unix BASH-like shell instead > (part of cygwin, but perhaps obtainable otherwise.) Filename > completion and real regular expressions as well as unix-style > filename wildcarding. Similarly on Macs, there are things that > work much better from a unix shell than from one of the GUI utils... FYI there are standalone precompiled free versions of bash.exe grep.exe awk.exe tar.exe gzip.exe bzip2.exe etc downloadable from the internet (various versions). Just use a search engine to locate them. There is no need to install full cygwin to exec one of these. Before I gave up on legacy systems I used to have a bootable floppy with these on it to do real work with. Of course there is also ed.exe ;-) Peter

Peter wrote: > FYI there are standalone precompiled free versions of bash.exe grep.exe > awk.exe tar.exe gzip.exe bzip2.exe etc downloadable from the internet > (various versions). Just use a search engine to locate them. There is no > need to install full cygwin to exec one of these. MinGW is an interesting collection of utilities like Peter describes. Gerhard

William ChopsWestfield wrote: >> [cmd.exe filename completion] >> ^ in the case where what you have typed so far would be ambiguous. >> > No capability of listing all the matches for what you have so far? No. It works more like incremental search (for example Mozilla's Find command) -- you find the first hit, and subsequent key presses find the subsequent ones. It isn't too bad -- one can get used to it. Gerhard

Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > No. It works more like incremental search (for example Mozilla's Find > command) -- you find the first hit, and subsequent key presses find the > subsequent ones. It isn't too bad -- one can get used to it. There's a setting "deep in the bowels of the registry" that will set this to work more like bash. IIRC, "TweakUI" has a magical checkbox that saves some spelunking. Otherwise, Google and/or MSDN should know. HTH, Tad Anhalt

>-----Original Message----- >From: .....piclist-bouncesKILLspam@spam@mit.edu [piclist-bouncesKILLspammit.edu] >Sent: 18 October 2005 00:25 >To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. >Subject: Re: [OT] Another 'DOS' command > > >Peter wrote: > >> FYI there are standalone precompiled free versions of bash.exe >> grep.exe >> awk.exe tar.exe gzip.exe bzip2.exe etc downloadable from the >internet >> (various versions). Just use a search engine to locate them. >There is no >> need to install full cygwin to exec one of these. > >MinGW is an interesting collection of utilities like Peter describes. I was going to mention MinGW. I used to use Cygwin, and while it's a fantastic package for those developing/porting linux applications, it's a (very) heavyweight installation for those of us that just need the shell functionality and perhaps a few command lines tools such as e.g. gawk. MinGW is small and packs more than enough functionality for most Windows users ;-) Russell, when you have a few minutes spare, grab MinGW and MSYS from http://www.mingw.org/ Regards Mike ======================================================================= This e-mail is intended for the person it is addressed to only. The information contained in it may be confidential and/or protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you must not make any use of this information, or copy or show it to any person. Please contact us immediately to tell us that you have received this e-mail, and return the original to us. Any use, forwarding, printing or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. No part of this message can be considered a request for goods or services. =======================================================================

On 17 Oct 2005, at 14:20, John Pfaff wrote: > Keep hitting <TAB> and it will cycle through the possible matches. Indeed - but if there are hundreds of matches you have to cycle through them all. Bash shows you the list so you can type a couple more characters to disambiguate - which is a much more efficient user interface. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net