What's the DOS replacement for the Windows Explorer search functionality ?

Had written a long question, but posted in wrong forum, cannot repost.

Argh. Want to look for files but also on timestamp and size crtiteria, on top of file naming and location.

Hi there.

chkdsk /v c: | find "filename.ext"

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M2

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C:\>chkdsk /v c:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
Detected minor inconsistencies on the drive. This is not a corruption.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SII of file 9.
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 9.
Cleaning up 2 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

72597703 KB total disk space.
9328552 KB in 34958 files.
11320 KB in 3076 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
226767 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
63031064 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
18149425 total allocation units on disk.
15757766 allocation units available on disk.

C:\>

Hi there.

Cute, Mechanix2Go. Instead of teaching him the error of his ways, you followed his request to the letter and gave him something that would work in DOS, but not WinXP's Command Prompt.

That sounds like something I'd do.

Hi Razor2.3

I'll take that as a complement.

Actually it WILL work in NT5 but only on FAT; not NTFS.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

I'll try it on my Windows98 ;) Why run FAT32 on XP ???

Now, seriously. I was thinking on something in the lines of :

dir \*.* /s | findstr "\/" | findstr ":" | findstr -v "<DIR>"

... then to be stuck with date and size conversion to be handled. But you then could query on bytesize (to the byte) and date (to the minute).

Ex.

C:\>dir \*.* /s | findstr "\/" | findstr ":" | findstr -v "<DIR>"
04/02/2003 09:52 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
17/12/2007 15:18 209 boot_GDISK32_copy.ini
04/02/2003 09:52 0 CONFIG.SYS
04/02/2008 12:20 246.551 IPC.LOG
23/01/2008 09:39 1.167 _Sid.txt
30/04/2007 11:46 39 usrlist.txt
24/04/2007 12:39 58.051 INSTALL.LOG

Hi there.

"Why run FAT32 on XP"

So when it breaks [it will] you have a fighting chance of fixing it.

for NT5:

attrib /s c:\*.* | find /i "filename.ext"

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

A quicker way of doing this:

dir \*.* /s | findstr "\/" | findstr ":" | findstr -v "<DIR>"

is:

dir /a-d \*.* /s | findstr "\/" | findstr ":"

But it's very tricky to do queries such as "modified within the last X weeks." Your best bet may be to try and find a utility application somewhere on the net.

With DIR you're left guessong about file flags.

That's the reason for using ATTRIB. It shows ALL files.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

True. I thought the OP also wanted to list the dates & times of each file, hence the DIR.

DIR /A includes hidden and system files, and DIR /A-D excludes directories. I'm not sure if DIR /A still misses any files that are included by ATTRIB /S.