Mail Archives: opendos/1997/06/17/00:01:01
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> One oddity of msdos 6.22 I found today involves the
> msdos find command.
> If a directory has 4 files in it that have
> file extensions of .1, and a find command is
> issued targeting those files msdos reports no files found.
> The specific command I used was:
> find /i "begin" *.1 <cr>
> The specific files were part of Mike Arst's u-sedit.zip
> package found on the simtel mirrors. Interestingly, an analogous grep
> command didn't fail.
> //eoj
By my quick tests, ms-dos find doesn't support wildcards. Opendos' find
and 4dos' ffind don't have this stupid shortcoming.
>
> UNIX is user friendly, it's just selective as to who its friends are.
>
> jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
>
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