Swiss File Knife - the open source file tree processor is a free multi function command line tool that belongs onto every usb stick. download from sourceforge. this package contains binaries, source and buildscripts for windows and linux. You may also download just the windows executable sfk.exe or the linux binary for Ubuntu or DSL. No installation, no registry entries, no DLL's - one exe handles all.
usage:
sfk list [-late|-old|-big|-small] [...] dir [mask]
list latest, oldest or biggest files within a directory tree.
find identical files. list changed files between directories.
list zip and jar contents. type "sfk list" for more.
sfk list -dir src1 -file .cpp -dir src2 -file .hpp
sfk list -late=20 -pure
sfk list -zip mydir .zip .jar
sfk stat [-minsize=mb] dir [-i]
show directory tree size statistics in mbytes.
minsize: list only dirs and files >= minsize mbytes.
-i: read list of files and directories from stdin.
sfk stat -minsize=10m
type dirlist.txt | sfk stat -quiet -i
sfk find [-c] singledir pattern [pattern2] [pattern3] ...
sfk grep [-c] -pat pattern [pattern2] -dir dir1 [-file] [.ext1] ...
case-insensitive pattern search for text and binary.
type "sfk find" for details. "sfk grep" is the same.
sfk find . foobar docs
sfk find -pat text1 text2 -dir src1 src2 -file .cpp .hpp
sfk grep -pat mytext -dir . -file .txt -norec

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