ShowFiles (sf) - DIR CLI command - shows a sorted & text-formatted list

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ShowFiles (sf) - 0.993
======================

DIR/LIST command - displays a sorted and text-formatted list.

ShowFiles (sf) is yet another DIR command (written in C).  It displays a sorted
and text-formatted list of files, drawers (dirs) and soft/hard-links on disk or
other storage medium. It will also display their additional information such as
size,  date,  possible comment,  executable  header type  (68k or PPC program),
protection-bits, etc, etc.

It supports  a number of different option/switch formats  (Amiga like switches,
Unix/Linux style  and DOS/Windows style).  It also supports  wildcards/pattern-
matching and Amiga templates.
  After installation, in the Shell,  please type "sf HELP" (or "sf --help") for
listing all options/switches. Or look in the .doc-file in the archive.


Features
--------
- Abbreviated as SF or just sf, fast and easy to type in the shell.
- Dirs/drawers displayed in blue color (pen 3).
- Executable files displayed in white color (pen 2).
- Hard/Softlinks are displayed underscored (underlined).
- Shows where any Hard/Softlinks points to.
- Possible comments are displayed in italic.
- Displays the "primitive" file type of files.
- Fetches and identifies executable headers. 68k, PPC (ELF), EXE, among others.
- Displays the Amiga file protection bits of files.
- Shows free disk space and sizes in KiB (1024), kB (1000) and bytes.
- Options SIZE and TIME, for sorting by size and time/date.
- Option REVERSE, for reversing the output list.
- Options (FILES, DIRS & LINKS) for displaying only files, dirs or links. Or
  intermix them.
- Option 68K, for only listing m680x0 (68k) executables (AmigaOS 3.x).
- Option PPC, for only listing PowerPC (PPC) executables (ELF headers).
- Option ALL, for showing all files and dirs in directories and subdirs.
- Option to TRACE files with an initial character ('/', '*' or (at)-char).
- Option to TRAIL files with a final character ('/', '*' or (at)-char).
- Possibility to specify a path to display.
- Supports wildcards/pattern-matching.
- Option BARE, for listing without heading/summary information.
- Shows OwnerUID, OwnerGID and ObjectID (as reported by DOS).
- Supports the ? switch, for showing the Amiga Template.
- Option DATEFIRST for having the date first in every line.
- Option REALDATES for dates in the international format YYYY-MM-DD.
- Option NOCOMMENTS for omitting comments in output listings.
- Option NAMES for displaying only names in the output listing.
- Supports multiple formats of options/switches (f.ex: TIME --time -t /t).
- Supports automatic updates through AmiUpdate.
- Supports Shell/Console with black background.
- Supports Shell/Console with blue background and white foreground with ANSI
  colors palette.
- Written (in C) and developed on Amiga, for Amiga and Amigans.


Special notes for this release
------------------------------
- NOTE: Option CLARIFY is now deprecated, please use MOST instead.
- NOTE: Option REALDATE is now deprecated, please use REALDATES instead.
- NOTE: No footer info implemented yet when pattern matching..
- All one-single-letter options such as a, -m, /P are case
  sensitive, where as non-single-letter options are not. Reason for this
  is because available free letters are becomming scarce for more options.
- For the latest changes/updates, look in the Changes-section in the manual...


Displaying dir-listings
-----------------------
There are 4 main OUTPUT VIEWS for displaying dir-listings, typing the
following (without the "1>" string):

1> sf
= displays all the files in current dir with the *DEFAULT* view.

1> sf NAMES
or
1> sf -n
= displays a list with only filenames

1> sf MORE
or
1> sf -m
= displays a list with more specific information including what exe type a file
is (PPC (ELF), 68k, exe etc.)

1> sf MOST
or
1> sf -M
= displays an even more clarified list of specific information.


More examples
-------------
Options can be written in any of the four different types. For example MORE,
--MORE, -m, /m, more and --more, are all the same option.
However, one single letter options such as m, -p, P, /H, etc are case-
sensitive, non-single letter options are not.

1> sf 68K
or
1> sf -6
= lists only 68K executables.

1> sf TIME
or
1> sf -t
= sorts by time/date (oldest first).

1> sf TIME REVERSE
or
1> sf -t -r
= sorts by time/date (newest/latest first).

1> sf DIRS
or
1> sf -d
= displays only drawers (dirs).

1> sf SIZE REVERSE
or
1> sf -s -r
= displays a list of files sorted by size, the biggest at the top.

1> sf ALL
or
1> sf -a
= displays all files and dirs in a directory and its sub-directories.


1> sf sobjs: -l -c
= displays only links in the dir/assignment called sobjs:

1> sf HELP
or
1> sf --help
or
1> sf -?
or
1> sf /?
= displays the help with a list of all switches/commands.

1> sf ram:t/n#?
= displays all files and dirs in RAM:T starting with character n.


Limitations
-----------
- No footer info implemented yet when pattern matching.
- When fetching for exe-files (using MORE or MOST option, sf doesn't
(yet) recognize the architecture for MacOS files, it does only recognize
if it's an exe-file (for what ever architecture) or not.)


Installation
------------
Just run the file ShowFiles.Install, 
or:  
* Copy the file ShowFiles to your C:
* Type the following and hit enter:
  C:MakeLink C:sf C:ShowFiles SOFT FORCE
  Or you could add the following line to your S:User-Startup:
  Alias sf ShowFiles []
* Copy the documentation to SYS:Documentation/C/ 
* Done!


Milestones and major events
---------------------------
2016 Feb, version 0.981
  - Fixed so sf works with Shells/Consoles with black background.
2015 Jul, version 0.970
  - Pattern matching implemented.
2014 Feb, version 0.943
  - A rare bug with option ALL (recursive dirs) found, and tested on 
    A1-X1000, Sam460ex and Sam440ep-flex. Bug caused by a compiler switch.
2013 Dec, version 0.923
  - All major/minor typos, quirks and bugs resolved in all scripts
    (AutoInstall, Install and UnInstall scripts).
2012 Nov, version 0.8
  - Renamed to ShowFiles (SF/sf) from DF (DisplayFiles), due to a name-clash.
2011 Feb, version Beta 5, (0.5)
  - AmiUpdate implemetation completed and fully working autoinstall.
2011 Feb, version Beta 2
  - Dynamic memory allocation for storing file meta data (dir listing handling),
    no more "max limit of 1000 files".
2011 Jan, version Alpha 1
  - First public release.


Changes
-------
Version 0.993: (Jan 2018)
  - Added white color (pen 2) as foreground on executable files.
  - Optimized the output listing, roughly about 41% faster now! Tested with 50
    items (42 files + 8 dirs). The whole command before had a mean of 0.3399 s
    and after the optimizion now a mean of 0.2014 s. However don't trust
    these values too much though, as the values fluctuates pretty much.
  - Made some minor changes to the three scripts.
Version 0.992: (Jan 2018)
  - Added commands SETANSICOLORSON and SETANSICOLORSOFF, set either one
    depending on if you use ANSI colors or System Pens as your Palette in
    the Text Colors tab in Console Preferences.
  - Added command SETBLUEBG for setting the background to blue. You might also
    want to set to use ANSI colors with the command SETANSICOLORSON.
Version 0.991: (Dec 2017)
  - Fixed issue in MOST view with uneven columns after Object ID now returns
    numbers with more digts.
  - Some changes to TRAIL and TRACE. Now TRACE has -i as one letter option and
    puts the symbol before the name. While TRAIL has -j and puts the symbol
    after the name.
Version 0.990: (Dec 2016)
  - New NOCOMMENTS option added, for omitting comments in output listings.
    (Kind of suggested by Guillaume (zzd10h).)
  - New NAMES option added, for displaying only names in the output listing.
    (Suggested by Severin.) (PS: both -l and -L for LESS
    are already taken/reser-ved)
  - New TRACE option added, allows files to be "traced" with an initial
    character. Dirs with an initial "/", executable with an "*", and links with
    an (at-char).
  - TRAIL is now opposite to TRACE, allows files to be "trailed" with a final
    character.
  - Fixed issue, (sometimes) the pointed link would appear not visable.
  - Bugfix: -E now works for DATEFIRST as expected.
  - Added one letter option -R to REALDATES ("promoted" from command
    to option).
  - Fixed issue, DATEFIRST -E added to documentation.
  - One new-line added to the MOST output.
  - Added alternative way of installation to readme, thanks Severin.
Version 0.982: (Feb 2016)
  - Fixed missing command (BARE) in the Template output and manual, it was in
    HELP and readme though.
  - Fixed so the Template is alphabetically sorted.
  - Fixed more contrast to the arrow (->) in links, color changed to black.
  - Fixed missing REALDATES and DATEFIRST in features in readme.
Version 0.981: (Feb 2016)
  - Fixed "sometimes missing footer" (appeared in the wrong color). Thanks
    Guillaume (zzd10h) for reporting.
  - Fixed wrong colors in comments when black Shell. Thanks Guillaume (zzd10h)
    for reporting. (PS: Option for omitting comments already on TODO-list.)
  - Fixed issue, "A block of text appeared in the wrong place in the readme".
  - Fixed a few missing commands in the Template output in help and in manual.
Version 0.980: (Feb 2016)
  - Added MOST aka -M option, same as CLARIFY and -c, but easier to remember.
  - Added SETBLACKBG command for setting the background color to black (pen 1),
    when using a Shell with black background.
  - Added SETNORMALBG command for setting the background color to normal (grey,
    pen 0), when using a Shell with normal/grey background.
  - Added PRINTENV command for printing out the ShowFiles (sf) environment/
    configuration variables.
  - The option REALDATE is now deprecated, please use REALDATES instead.
  - Included all error codes and their meaning to the manual.
  - A number of typos fixed in readme.
Version 0.972: (Sep 2015)
  - Compiled with latest SDK version 53.29.
  - Fixed case sensitive issue with pattern matching. (thanks Guillaume
    (zzd10h) for reporting)
  - Fixed a rare condition where header whould not render correctly.
  - UseCount removed from output, DOS structure no longer support it.
Version 0.971: (Jul 2015)
  - Fixed bug, pattern matching in current dir failed.
Version 0.970: (Jul 2015)
  - Pattern matching implemented.
  - Fixed bug, header background-color sometimes smearing to next line.
  - Fixed issue with template and option/command-info-format, a few working
    commands/options were missing in the printed output.
  - Fixed APP-string/name, leftover garbage ("DEBUG") removed from the string.
...//snip//

    (See the doc/manual for more information.)


Thank You
---------
Thank you to everyone giving help, feedback, bug/error-reports and suggestions.
Individual credits are in history body text.


Requirements
------------
AOS4 (requires locale.library V48+ or DOS V50.36+ if locale not available).
AmigaOS 4.1 FE recommended.


Licence
-------
This software is freeware.


Donation
--------
Feel free to make a donation by using PayPal:
marko . seppanen // g m a i l. com (without spaces)


Author
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Marko K. Seppänen


Homepage
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http://m4rko.com/amiga
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