My ES.exe Command Line Wish List

[keithg1964]

1) With the database now (optionally) including dates, times and size of files, display them during in addition to the file and path name.
2) If nothing specified on command line default to help, not a search of everything.
3) Add an page pause after each page (ie: es.exe es.exe | more)
4) Default to whole word search. (Change may upset other users and I would understand it this is not done)
5) Expand options to display help in addition to -h (ie /H /? etc)

If you wish to attack this list please start with number 1, as to others I can deal with.
The best way to deal with the items 2, 3 and 4 may be with an optional config file to leave defaults the same.

Keith

Ps I have an JPSoft Take Command Alias to deal with 2, 3 and 4 ( ff=iff %# GT 0 then %+ ( es.exe -w -s %1 | more ) %+ else %+ es.exe -h %+ endiff )
Thanks for a great tool!!!!

[therube]

Much of what you can do, you can do by creating a batch file that calls ES.EXE with your wanted parameters.

So you can...

test %1 for "" or "-?" or "/?" & if match then send ES -? && pause && exit

Want whole word?
In your batch file, use, "ES -w" instead of simply "ES".


Pause.
Not a pause, but pipe ES results to a "file".

SF.bat:

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%*  |  clip.exe  &&  ShowTx.exe /paste

ShowTx is an auto-sizing plain text viewer that allows editing and saving the text. ShowTx is ideal for use in batch processes or as "Send To" application. Unicode.

So you can do something like:

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C:\>  SF.BAT  ES.EXE  dm:today !cache/ !cache2/

And with that, you get a nice scrolling window with files modified today:




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"SF.bat".
Oh, that might be meaningless to you, but In my mind "SF" stands for "Show File", a holdover from the same named utility on a Texas Instruments DX10 OS.
(Look that one up .)

[void]

ES 1.1.0.2 adds most these features:

1) With the database now (optionally) including dates, times and size of files, display them during in addition to the file and path name.

Use -dm, -size

2) If nothing specified on command line default to help, not a search of everything.

Use -empty-search-help

3) Add an page pause after each page (ie: es.exe es.exe | more)

Use -pause

4) Default to whole word search. (Change may upset other users and I would understand it this is not done)

Use -ww

5) Expand options to display help in addition to -h (ie /H /? etc)

-h, -help, /h, /help will now show the help.

Use -save-settings to make the specified switches the default.
For example, make ES match whole words by default:
es.exe -ww -save-settings

To temporarily disable match whole words, use:
es -noww