capturing a file search

[chuck]

WinXP sp2

I do a search for files ... say *.mpg
I come up with results

Is there any way to capture the result in a doc or xls file?

 

[Novice]

WinXP sp2

I do a search for files ... say *.mpg
I come up with results

Is there any way to capture the result in a doc or xls file?

Cut N paste, copy etc
OR..........
GoTo: downloads.com
Register,(it's free but you must supply a valid email addy)
In that site, Type "screengrab"
This will produce several apps/software which may meet your
requirements.
Note: They come under differing headings -
"Freeware", "Shareware", "Trial", "Full" etc.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

WinXP sp2

I do a search for files ... say *.mpg
I come up with results

Is there any way to capture the result in a doc or xls file?

Hi

My suggestion:

Install the free Agent Ransack and use it for searches.

Download it from here:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

Agent Ransack can save the search result to a file (or clipboard),
as text, comma separated text or tab separated text. E.g. Excel
reads comma separated text (csv) very well.

 

[chuck]

Ransack works just fine.

Was hoping to be able to do it with just windows (I can't install
ransack on my machine at work)

TKS

 

[Stephen Harris]

Ransack works just fine.

Was hoping to be able to do it with just windows (I can't install
ransack on my machine at work)

TKS

----- Original Message -----
From: "chuck" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: capturing a file search

Ransack works just fine.

Was hoping to be able to do it with just windows (I can't install
ransack on my machine at work)

TKS

There is a tiny dos utility called whereis.com (maybe written in assembly)
from the old dos days that will work from the command prompt in win xp.
It doesn't need to be installed as a program to work; for instance

whereis ras* > ras.txt will produce this content

C:\CONCEPTS\RASMUS~1.PS
C:\CONCEPTS\RASMUS~1.TXT
C:\CYGWIN\BIN\RAS2TIFF.EXE

which is the contents of my ras* search directed to a .txt file.

Rasmussen is a CA researcher.

Because it is a dos style program,
over 8 letters in filename prefix are attenuated.

So at the command prompt if I had typed with the F (full) switch

C:> whereis rasm*.* /F > rasm.txt it would produce the helpful

Directory: C:\CONCEPTS\RASM????.???

RASMUS~1 PS 12,833,323 4-12-05 12:55a A___
RASMUS~1 TXT 25,644 4-14-05 8:04p A___

Files: 2 Size: 12,911,104

But I don't think this helps with discovering specific text
in a file, just filenames. I have used whereis since dos 3.0
I haven't used pipedir which is potentially quite dangerous.

http://www.ctyme.com/download.htm

WHEREIS.ZIP - Searches disk for files. Same features as PipeDir
but root directory is assumed as the starting directory.

Regards,
Stephen

 

[chuck]

Thanks for the follow-up!

----- Original Message -----
From: "chuck" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: capturing a file search



There is a tiny dos utility called whereis.com (maybe written in assembly)
from the old dos days that will work from the command prompt in win xp.
It doesn't need to be installed as a program to work; for instance

whereis ras* > ras.txt will produce this content

C:\CONCEPTS\RASMUS~1.PS
C:\CONCEPTS\RASMUS~1.TXT
C:\CYGWIN\BIN\RAS2TIFF.EXE

which is the contents of my ras* search directed to a .txt file.

Rasmussen is a CA researcher.

Because it is a dos style program,
over 8 letters in filename prefix are attenuated.

So at the command prompt if I had typed with the F (full) switch

C:> whereis rasm*.* /F > rasm.txt it would produce the helpful

Directory: C:\CONCEPTS\RASM????.???

RASMUS~1 PS 12,833,323 4-12-05 12:55a A___
RASMUS~1 TXT 25,644 4-14-05 8:04p A___

Files: 2 Size: 12,911,104

But I don't think this helps with discovering specific text
in a file, just filenames. I have used whereis since dos 3.0
I haven't used pipedir which is potentially quite dangerous.

http://www.ctyme.com/download.htm

WHEREIS.ZIP - Searches disk for files. Same features as PipeDir
but root directory is assumed as the starting directory.

Regards,
Stephen