Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

[Marcos F. F. de B. <fa...@mp...>]

>> According to the 4DOS 'copy' instructions, it does support it:
>>
>> 4DOS Help Topic:  COPY
>> /I"text":  Select source files by matching text in their
>>      descriptions.  The text can include wildcards and extended
>>      wildcards.  The search text must be enclosed in quotation marks,
>>      and must follow the /I immediately, with no intervening spaces.
>>      You can select all filenames that have a description with
>>      /I"[?]*", or all filenames that do not have a description with
>>      /I"[]".

> Quite cool :-) What other fun stuff can it do with descriptions?

The /I option is available in the following commands (and
possibly others) for basically the same purpose as in "copy":

  ATTRIB
  DEL
  DESCRIBE
  DIR
  DO
  FFIND
  FOR
  HEAD
  MOVE
  REN
  SELECT
  TAIL

In at least one case "/I" is invaluable for me: to find
photographs of a given person or place. I already had the habit
of giving a 4DOS description to all my pictures. So I wrote a
batch file that uses FFIND to search for the desired keyword in
the descriptions, and writes a list of the filenames. Works
really well!

Regards,

Marcos

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Marcos Fávero Florence de Barros
Campinas, Brazil