DT / CDE Filemanager Find capabilities

[Jon Hansen_1]

This is a question that I have asked multiple sources to find a solution for but came up blank. The question is:

How can I give CDE/DT filemanater on HP the same file search capabilities as are available on the SUN. Specifically I want to make the filemanager search by size, dates modified, owner, file type, permission and attributes.

It would be helpful to have pointers to some filemanager.dt examples. I know Sun uses the openwindows functionality to allow this, so I am wondering how HP can do this without Openwindows.

[Pete Randall]

Hi,

From what I can see in File Manager and its help files, you can't do that. However, it is simple to do from the command line. Do a man on the find command.

HTH,
Pete

[Jon Hansen_1]

Yeah, You try to tell about a thousand engineers how to use the find command.. Correctly.. Next.

[Steve Steel]

Hi

See man dtfile


-order order_type
Dtfile displays files in the order specified by the order_type
parameter. Order_type must have one of the following values:

alphabetical
Files are displayed in alphabetical order. This is the
default order.

file_type Files are displayed in groups based on their filetypes.

date Files are displayed in an order based on the date when they
were last modified.

size Files are displayed in an order based on their size.

That is what there is.

Steve steel

[Pete Randall]

Sorry, didn't mean to step on your (or your engineer's) sensitive toes. You could, however, script the find command so all they had to do was enter the script name and it would prompt them for their search parameters.

Just a thought - good luck,
Pete

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Never used it myself, but you could take a look at this:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gtk/gtkfind-1.1/

[Jon Hansen_1]

I should be the one to appologise. I have had the GM management on my/our case to get this solved for a long time. I guess I let the monkey get to me.

[Pete Randall]

No offense taken. Actually, I thought I was kidding you back. I have complete sympathy for your plight, users (engineers or otherwise) are unlikely to accept change willingly and we have to coax them through it however we can. I'm just trying to offer alternatives in hopes they help.

Good Luck,
Pete