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Subject: Re: OT/Re: linux issues

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 07:59:57 05/27/02

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On May 26, 2002 at 23:11:06, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On May 26, 2002 at 16:32:15, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On May 26, 2002 at 15:39:32, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On May 26, 2002 at 14:52:15, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 26, 2002 at 14:00:48, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 26, 2002 at 01:49:09, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On May 25, 2002 at 17:04:10, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On May 25, 2002 at 15:29:31, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>So I wrote an utility that makes no assumption on the type of the files to
>>>>>>>>search and can be used to do various things neither find nor grep can do.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>For example?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
>>>>>>³ EF Version 1.00  Copyright (c) 1995 Christophe Th‚ron ³
>>>>>>³  Recherche de chaŒne de caractŠres dans tout fichier  ³
>>>>>>ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
>>>>>>Syntaxe: EF fichier "texte" [/option] [/option] ...
>>>>>>	 /u : tenir compte des majUscules/minUscules
>>>>>>	 /e : mot Entier: texte ne doit pas faire partie d'un autre mot
>>>>>>	 /f : afficher seulement le nom du Fichier
>>>>>>	 /n : afficher le nom du fichier et le Nombre d'occurences
>>>>>>	 /s : parcourir aussi tous les Sous-r‚pertoires
>>>>>>	 /m : afficher une Marque devant le texte trouv‚
>>>>>>	 /p : afficher la Position du texte dans le fichier
>>>>>>	 /l : afficher le nø de la Ligne (pour les fichiers textes)
>>>>>>	 /t : afficher le Texte, sans le nom du fichier
>>>>>>	 /c : afficher la ligne ComplŠte (jusqu'… 255 caractŠres)
>>>>>>	 /a : afficher le nom des fichiers dont le texte est Absent
>>>>>>	 /i : afficher le texte s'il n'apparaŒt dans aucun fichier
>>>>>>	 /d : afficher ce qu'il y a DerriŠre le texte trouv‚
>>>>>>Dans le texte, le caractŠre '?' sert de joker.
>>>>>>En sortie, ERRORLEVEL=1 si texte trouv‚, ERRORLEVEL=0 si pas trouv‚.
>>>>>>Pendant la recherche,  [Espace]=PAUSE  [Echap]=ARRET
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Exemples:   EF *.C printf    EF *.exe ver: /u    EF *.* "??DOS ?.??" /M /p
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm sorry, it's in french.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can switch case sensitivity. You can search for whole words only. You can
>>>>>>get a listing with file names only (which file contains this?), you can get a
>>>>>>listing with number of occurences instead of the occurences themselves, you can
>>>>>>search in the subdirectories, you can get a listing with a big mark before the
>>>>>>occurences (to make them more easy to read), you can get a listing with the
>>>>>>absolute position of the occurences in the files (in characters) or the line
>>>>>>number (for text files only).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can also print the occurence itself without the file name, get the full
>>>>>>occurence up to 255 characters, get a listing of files NOT containing the text,
>>>>>>print the text only if it appears in NO file, and finally not print the
>>>>>>occurence but only the text that follows immediately the occurence.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Additionally an errorlevel is returned if the text is found (useful for batch
>>>>>>files) and you can use space and escape to pause and stop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It does not work with regular expressions, it only accept the "?" character as
>>>>>>joker. But it is very fast.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Find is nowhere near.
>>>>>
>>>>>You're correct that "find" can't do all of these things, but it can do several
>>>>>of those things.  Perhaps in a previous version, the command couldn't do much,
>>>>>but a lot of the command-line utilities have become pretty powerful since
>>>>>Windows2000.  Maybe this is only in the "Professional" edition of WindowsXP, not
>>>>>the "Home" edition - I don't know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Your post shows up in a different font than any other post I've ever read here.
>>>>It seems to be a reproducible attribute of that one post.  Very strange...
>>>
>>>
>>>It's because I have sent the output of my "EF" DOS utility to a file and
>>>directly pasted the file in the message.
>>>
>>>French accentuated DOS characters (like é, è or à) do not translate correctly to
>>>Windows accentuated characters without a specific conversion.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>No, your post showed up in the browser (IE 6) with the same font as always.  It
>>was Jeremiah's response that used a different font.  (Neither font shows the
>>French fonts correctly.)  My response to Jeremiah's post was also in the new
>>font, as was your reponse to me.
>>
>>As I compose this, I see the usual font.  But once I post it and go read it, I
>>bet it will be in the new font.
>>
>>I have read many thousands of posts in CCC and Jeremiah's was the first one I'd
>>ever seen the browser render in a completely different font.
>
>
>
>I'm using IE6 here and the fonts look as usual (Courrier TrueType).
>
>I don't know what the problem is. Maybe a transmission problem? Have you tried
>to hit Ctrl-Reload to force the page to reload?
>
>
>
>    Christophe


It's not a problem, just an oddity.  It's still happening today, but only on
this thread and only since Jeremiah's post.  Reloading doesn't change it.  Maybe
there was a hidden character in Jeremiah's post that triggered something in my
browser?



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