Query Shell Scripts Download

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About Query Shell Scripts:

This archive contains three shell scripts for working with Be file attributes. 'Showattr' lists each attribute and its content for each file on the command line or read from stdin. 'Findattr' slowly, but thoroughly, finds *every* file that has the specified attribute with the specified value. 'Vquery' allows one to run queries similar to Be's 'Find', but allow for much more complex

This archive contains three shell scripts for working with Be file attributes. 'Showattr' lists each attribute and its content for each file on the command line or read from stdin; it is trivial, although the sed script inside it borders on black magic. 'Findattr' slowly, but thoroughly, finds *every* file that has the specified attribute with the specified value. 'Vquery' allows one to run queries similar to Be's 'Find', but allow for much more complex queries; it doesn't care about the syntax you use; it just dumps it into the query attribute. However, Be's 'Find' *is* quite particular and quite snooty; if it doesn't like the syntax you used, it will turn its nose up and do nothing. And while the correct syntax really isn't documented, it *can* be discerned by using showattr to see the contents of the query attributes 'Find' creates.

Each script prints a usage statement when run with no arguments.

Installation is a matter of dragging the three scripts to /boot/home/config/bin (and ensuring that that directory is in your PATH - this is left as an exercise for the student.)

There is no difference between the PPC and Intel versions. (After all, they *are* shell scripts!)


Details about this version:

I've only run this on BeOS R4.5/Intel. However, they should work
just fine on BeOS R4 and most likely will run on BeOS R3. And they
should work hokey-dokey on PPC.

License:

Freeware

Submitted On:

12 Oct 2008

Submitted By:

Karl vom Dorff (karl)

File Date:

01 Nov 1999

File Author:

Fest3er

File Version:

0.1

File Size:

2.32 Kb

File Type:

zip

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