"Whereis" is a utility which searches a file(name) on (hard)disk and shows
you the path to this file. Because AMIGA's power is only revealed if you've
installed a hard-disk (and AMIGA's commands are often loaded from disk
(c:-dir)), some hard-disk users (like me) will loose overview about the
stored files. If you have hundreds or thousands of subdirectories and don't
know in which of them the program "DiskSalv" was, just type in: "whereis
disksalv" and "whereis" will search through your whole active volume. You
don't have to look for with "list" or "dir" manually. All files matching
the given filename (-pattern) are displayed.
"Whereis" combines a "find that file"-function with certain list functions:
you can use it as "fnams/recurdir/mydir"[1] (or whatever that little
programs are called) to collect the filenames and give them to "ZOO" which
then can compress whole subdirectories or volumes. "Whereis" will do that
job savely for you!
** Note: "whereis" can only be started from a CLI or SHELL (sorry WB Users!).
[1] "RecurDir" or "mydir" (that's how the author (Stephen Vermeulen) named it)
was released on Fish-Disk 284. It is recursive programmed and 5516 Bytes long.
Features of "whereis":
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+ Case dependent/independent (switch -c).
+ Wildcards * and ? possible.
+ Abortable at any time (with CTRL-D or CTRL-C).
+ Interactive mode which allows to change your current dir.
+ Non recursive algorithm -> no problems with stack-sizes (not like LookFor or
RecurDir)
+ Works also as "fnams"/"RecurDir". Use "whereis" with pipes.
(archives all filenames from subdirectories for "ZOO", look below)
+ Can search on any file-oriented AmigaDOS-device and in any sub-dirs.
Can be used as a "list all".
+ Displays date and size of files if wanted.
+ some other useful options.
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