Help with search

[StarterPack]

Hi guys, I want to search for all my .jpg "Jpeg" files on my C or D drive etc. including in all folders and display it in "Listbox" with path
Any help please

[Gaev]

StarterPack:

1) First, try this in your Command Window ...

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dir c:\*.jpg /s  /b

2) if the resulting response is what you want, do this from your NeoBook application (using the Run command) ...

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dir c:\*.jpg /s  /b > c:\ListOfAllJpgFiles.txt

3) And follow this the Run command with commands to load the contents of this file into a NeoBook variable ... one which is specified for the "List Items" property of your ListBox/ComboBox e.g. ...

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FileRead "!c:\ListOfAllJpgFiles.txt" "All" "[ListBox1Items]"

Note: make sure you specify the "Wait" option with the Run command, so the FileRead command will only be serviced after the dir command has done its job.

[StarterPack]

Hi Gaev
Thank you for your reply. Exactly what I needed.
I Just change my .bat file to
"dir c:\*.jpg /s /b | findstr /v .jpg. > JPegFiles.txt"

I'm happy now....... Thank You!

[Tony Kroos]

Just one thing - do not use files for output. You may not have enough privileges to write on disk, e.g. root folders, etc...
Copy output directly to clipboard with | clip

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Run "dir" "d:\temp\*.jpg /s  /b | clip" "RunOnce+Wait+Hidden" "" ""
AlertBox "" "[Clipboard]"
ClearVariables "[Clipboard]"

[Gaev]

Tony Kroos:

I just used the target/container file name as an example ... users can specify [TempDir] or [PubDir] or any other location.

But the idea of using the Clipboard is a much better choice than using a file as an interim store ... didn't know the clip command existed ... note that ...

The clip.exe command file comes standard with Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and newer versions of Windows. It does not come standard with earlier versions of Windows such as Windows XP.

But if you are using one of the supported versions of Windows, you can use this command with many other commands e.g. dir, tree, type, sort, find, findstr, ftype ... to name just a few.

Thanks for sharing !!!