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Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:05:46 PST8
From:	an479@lafn.org
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: listing of hidden files

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> From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race"
> To: "scoug-help@scoug.com"
> Subject: SCOUG-Help: listing of hidden files
> >
> >Any way in OS/2 to list hidden files from command line?
> >I was looking for some INI files and had to use a DOS
> >utility (CO.COM) to find them. I can find no DIR
> >switch to display them.

I prefer to see all the files all the time, so I usually use a
batch file (d.cmd) from the command line whenever I want to look
at a directory. (I "borrowed" the "d" name from a CP/M utility I
had been using regularly before switching to OS/2.)

Here it (the batch file) is in all its glory:

@echo off
rem /A show files with all attributes
rem /N use HPFS format for directory display
rem /O sort files (default: alpha, directories then files)
rem /V (undocumented) display file attributes in listing
rem /P pause for pages
rem %2 allows /S (subdirectories) or other added entries
IF +%1==+/S GOTO SUBDIR
IF +%1==+/s GOTO SUBDIR
dir %1 /A /N /O /V /P %2
GOTO END
:SUBDIR
dir /A /N /O /V /S /P %2
:END

Jack P.

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