From c0c5aa4eeeb5208bfbe6588bb36e713f1d478308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Robbins Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:32:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated readme --- FF/Constants.resx | 3 ++- ReadMe.md | 11 ++++++++--- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/FF/Constants.resx b/FF/Constants.resx index be3ac4e..9795061 100644 --- a/FF/Constants.resx +++ b/FF/Constants.resx @@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ FF [-regex] [-includedir] [-nostats] [-path <directory>] pattern* -path <directory> - The directory tree to search. The default is the current directory. Because of command line parsing weakness in Windows, don't end the directories with '\' characters - (short: -p)attern* - The patterns/files to search for. Specify as many patterns + (short: -p) +pattern* - The patterns/files to search for. Specify as many patterns as you want separated by spaces. Enclose patterns/files in quotes to use spaces in the pattern or name. diff --git a/ReadMe.md b/ReadMe.md index 9bc7a2c..e69ddc5 100644 --- a/ReadMe.md +++ b/ReadMe.md @@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ For some reason, I always seem to be looking for file and directory names. Since desktop search is a GUI and I'm a command line kind of guy, I got tired of waiting on PowerShell to slowly grind through the file system on its single thread. With lots of cores and an SSD, I shouldn't be waiting on simple file finds! On a plane trip I threw together this command line tool to speed up my file finding and give me an extra five seconds each day I used to spend waiting on file searches to finish. This little program scratched my itch and maybe someone will find it useful. -You can search with wild cards as well as regular expressions and for as many patterns as you want. It will also handle directory names if you want. Yes, it’s a full featured fast file finder. Here are all the command line flags and usage instructions: +You can search with wild cards as well as regular expressions and for as many patterns as you want. It will also handle directory names if you want. Yes, it’s a full featured fast file finder. Version 2.0 is now about 30% faster and also handles very long filenames. - FF 1.0.0.0 + +Here are all the command line flags and usage instructions: + + FF 2.0.0.0 (c) 2012, John Robbins/Wintellect - john@wintellect.com Find file and directory names fast! @@ -19,7 +22,9 @@ You can search with wild cards as well as regular expressions and for as many pa -nostats - Don't show the search statistics at the end. Useful when you just want the list of matching files. (short: -ns) -path - The directory tree to search. The default is the current - directory. (short: -p) + directory. Because of command line parsing weakness in + Windows, don't end the directories with '\' characters + (short: -p) pattern* - The patterns/files to search for. Specify as many patterns as you want separated by spaces. Enclose patterns/files in quotes to use spaces in the pattern or name.