BartlebyScrivener wrote: > How about one of these that works on Windows XP? I know there's no > files.cache, but I wonder if your script could be combined with another > function that would generate a list of paths on a Windows XP machine. > > Anyway, thanks for the script. >
I wrote it on a Windows XP machine. The files.cache is generated when you use the -u option. For example if you saved the script as locate.py first at a command prompt: python locate.py -u this will create the files.cache, it simply walks through your entire hard drive writing all the directories and files it finds along the way. Then doing: python locate.py SomeFileOrDirName will go through the files.cache matching whatever term your looking for if present. Although the rootPath variable is set to the POSIX style path of "/" Python converts it to a proper path. At least thats my assumption as it works fine on my system. Adonis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
