Convert Windows' dir /s to find format
Sometimes you would like to convert the output of DOS/Windows' DIR
/S command into the output of UNIX' find command. You will
find here a basic script that does just that.
hugh?
Sometimes some lazy or paranoid system administrator refuses to install the
find command for Windows. So you are left only with the crappy Windows
basic commands. You could reply of course that if they were so paranoid, they could
download the source code, inspect it and recompile it themselves.
find is extremely useful to get a nice file tree that you can
grep later from your Linux box (unless again you installed
grep on Windows).
The Script
So when you don't have find and still need a basic
find output eventually, you could use this script. It turns an output that looks like this:
Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is B0B8-957C Directory of C:\WINDOWS 12/19/2006 09:36 PM <DIR> . 12/19/2006 09:36 PM <DIR> .. 12/21/2006 03:44 PM 0 0.log 03/21/2006 11:01 AM <DIR> addins 08/23/2001 08:00 PM 1,272 Blue Lace 16.bmp 08/23/2001 08:00 PM 82,944 clock.avi 08/23/2001 08:00 PM 17,062 Coffee Bean.bmp 12/19/2006 06:49 PM 43,027 comsetup.log 03/21/2006 11:01 AM <DIR> Config 03/21/2006 11:01 AM <DIR> Connection Wizard 03/21/2006 04:02 AM 0 control.ini 03/21/2006 03:55 AM <DIR> Cursors 10/11/2006 05:43 PM <DIR> Debug ...
Into an output that looks like this:
C:/WINDOWS C:/WINDOWS/0.log C:/WINDOWS/Blue Lace 16.bmp C:/WINDOWS/clock.avi C:/WINDOWS/Coffee Bean.bmp C:/WINDOWS/control.ini C:/WINDOWS/comsetup.log C:/WINDOWS/addins C:/WINDOWS/Config C:/WINDOWS/Connection Wizard C:/WINDOWS/Cursors C:/WINDOWS/Debug ...
The script makes it easy to grep
for particular files like .exe or .log or any other
pattern that you may be looking for.
Native GNU tools on Windows
The better alternative of course is to install some vital GNU tools onto your
Windows system.
Karl M. Syring has ported essential GNU tools to native Windows on his http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ project.
Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (
msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.
The tools included (at the time of this writing) are:
bc bison bzip2 diffutils fileutils findutils flex gawk grep gsar110 gzip indent jwhois less m4 make patch recode rman sed shellutils tar textutils unrar wget which
Emulated GNU tools on
Windows
A team of enthusiasts originally from Cygnus (now part of RedHat) have created an
emulation layer that allows to re-compile and run most GNU or standard Linux tools
on Windows. You can download this environment called cygwin (in pre-compiled binary, or in source form).
- A DLL (
cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.- A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.
The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.
Cygwin contains an amazing number of GNU or Linux tools that come very handy on
Windows, including mamoths like XWindow, XEmacs, openssh or ddd
Conclusion
In order of robustness & speed you should use: