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Re: Lookin' for File in all the wrong places

• Posted by Lucius L Hilley III <luciuslhilleyiii at JUNO.COM> Jul 04, 1997
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On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 21:30:50 +0600 "C. K. Lester" <cklester at FLASH.NET>
writes:
>
>I was hopin' maybe somebody around here has come up with a pretty fast
>routine for finding all instances of a file on a hard drive, then
>returning the paths to those files.
>
>If not, how would I go about finding a file, let's say it's called
>"findme.now," on a hard drive most efficiently? Currently, I'm using
>routines supplied by RDS, but I just know there's faster ways to be
>had... And I'd prefer a non-machine code type solution, if available.
>
>Thanks guys! (any gals around here?)
>ck lester
>
you could use "dir findme.now /s"
But this is a dos command and would have to be passed to a file.
"dir findmen.now /s >found"
Then you would have to parse "found".

GOOD Luck