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From: Zaidy036 on 11 Jul 2010 21:47
"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald(a)techemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell" <seegod1(a)cogeco.ca> wrote in message
> news:e4XgwfSFLHA.5668(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hey folks! Back with some of the old Windows OSes, if I wanted to
> > find all > my temporary files, all I had to do was open up my C:
> > drive and search for > "*.tmp"
>>
>
>> I've tried doing this in Windows 7 Pro, but it says it's not finding
> > > anything, which I find completely hard to believe, of course.
>
>>
>> Has anything changed, or should we not still be able to do
> > wildcard-type > searches?
>
>
> Nothing has changed if you use a cmd window:
>
> cd /d C:
> dir/a/b/s/p *.tmp
>
> or you could try a Powershell window for something similar more
> verbosely:
>
> PS C:\> Get-ChildItem -Force -Recurse -include .tmp
> -WarningAction:SilentlyContinue -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue |
> Select-Object -Property FullName | more
>
> Tip: You could go and do something else after issuing this. Also,
> judging by the messages being suppressed by those options, it's not
> clear to me if the two results would be equivalent. <eg>
>
>
>>
>> Any help gratefully accepted. Thanks!
>>
>> Carmen


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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