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Number   :  3009
Date     :  2002-10-29
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Pattern-matching in file contents
Size(KB) :  2


--- In xxcopy@y..., Joseph Maddison  wrote:
> Not only is this functionality, as you say, replicated by other,
> dedicated utilities, but as I see it, it is getting way out on
> a limb for XXCOPY. How will duplicating functionality already
> existing in freeware make XXCOPY more useful/desirable to the
> buying public? Would it be better to concentrate on features no
> one else does? Hint, hint.

I've got to say that I agree entirely with Joseph. There are 
countless utilities for line based file operations and file search 
utilities that have been around for a very long time. Most of the 
Unix commands have been ported to DOS/W32 and are more suited to 
those sort of tasks. Apart from Grep that Kan has already mentioned, 
there's programs like HEAD, TAIL, SED, GAWK and others. Even the 
humble batch file (or not so humble in NT/W2k/XP) with a few native 
commands is able to handle simple line based operations.

> ... you know my pet projects. The reason I keep bringing them up
> is that *no one else does them* and there *is* a need... but at
> this rate, maybe I'm the only one in the world who'd ever want
> their files copied in LFN or SFN (including path) order. 
> 
> I'd love to hear from anyone else who might like to have files,
> say from a large directory tree copied to CD's in a definite,
> predictable pattern. CD 1 contains directories A-J, CD 2
> contains directories K-Z... things like that.

I already do that sort of thing using a series of batch files and 
wild-wild source specifiers. Not quite the same as you're after but 
close enough. Admittedly the task is relatively straightforward in my 
case because of a structured naming convention in the directory tree 
of the data being copied.

My personal view is that Xxcopy could be made more versatile if it 
could read the source file list from a file along the same lines as 
the /EX exclusion file list. This would allow for sorting of the 
source file list, filtering and many other task specific operations 
prior to invoking Xxcopy.

Garry



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