[gameprogrammer] Re: OTP: deleting porn - deleting, finding and moving files in windows

true that, nice idea on the file find :P

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Triston O'Connor" <tris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 2:11 PM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: OTP: deleting porn - deleting, finding and
moving files in windows


> Um.. I don't mean to burn anyone here or continue the war of windows vs
> linux but I just thought you should all know of a handy little way to
> manipulate certain files in Windows since it seems to have been completely
> forgotten about... (?)
>
> To 'trash' the examples given so far to find a file with "abc" in its name
> is so easy on windows my girlfriend and mother can even do it.
>
> START | SEARCH
> You will be given a range of options spelled out in plain English (no
> command line switches or continually checking --help or /?) and you can
> search for part of or a whole filename, you don't even need to use
> wildcards. You can sort the results based on all available info just like
> viewing in details mode and you then select the appropriate ones and copy,
> move or delete them. Its not that difficult.
>
> I think Windows XP was a major leap forward for Microsoft and it
completely
> raised my expectations for any operating system these days.
>
> -Triston.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> AO> Actually, I was very unfortunate with this example. I should have
asked
> AO> for something like "deleting all the files with "abc" in any part of
the
> AO> name" :)
>
> You're being ridiculous. Since '95, you've had extended wildcards so
> to trash your example, you do this:
>
> del *abc*
>
> For your previous examples:
>
> del *.txt
>
> or
>
> move *.txt <directory>
>
> Of course, you have to do it from a command prompt but given you were
> arguing about user-friendly environments, you need a shell open in
> Linux too thus rendering your argument invalid.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
>
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