Find directories without specific files.

[MeTAlMollY]

Hello all,

I'm looking for a way to find all directories which don't contain specific files.

Currently I have some 200 folders (including some sub folders). Most of these (sub)folders contain a file named folder.jpg, some of them don't. Now I looking for a way to list the folders not holding this file.
I assume this is possible with the Search Files feature, but I don't know how? Can somebody give me a solution?

Thanks,
Mark

[Peter]

Try this (untested; attention: I use the German version, so maybe my description does not use exactly the English strings):

search (Alt-F7)
Register "Plugins":
- search in Plugins: YES
- 1. Line: Plugin: tc / full (file) name / !contains / "myfile.txt"
- 2. Line: Plugin: tc / directory / = / YES

Peter

[MeTAlMollY]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't seem to work. Using these settings it still returns all directories (also the ones holding the file).

Mark

[Peter]

Strange ...

can you post a screenshot of your settings in the search-dialogue?

Peter

[Hacker]

Peter,
If there is a file like "c:\SearchedDir\Notmyfile.txt" its dir will be a successful match.

Roman

[Peter]

...- 1. Line: Plugin: tc / full (file) name / !contains / "myfile.txt"...

Hacker,

you are right. I think the first line should be (untested)

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1. Line: Plugin: tc / full (file) name / != / "myfile.txt"

[Hacker]

Peter,
I think "c:\SearchedDir\BlaBla.txt" would be a successful match for the dir c:\SearchedDir, too - it is a dir and it does not contain myfile.txt in the result, even if the next searched file might be "c:\SearchedDir\myfile.txt".

Roman

[MeTAlMollY]

Hi all,

@Peter: Using the != also doesn't give the expected results. It actually gives the same results as using the !contains operator. I have something like this. The idea is that search gives me the dirs not folder the file.
But I don't want to see the dirs on the first level as they never hold this file. I think this is part of the problem sorry if this was not clear before.

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Music Share Folder
	Artist Name\Album Name
	Artist Name\Album Name\Folder.jpg
	Artist Name\Album Name\CD_1
	Artist Name\Album Name\CD_2\Folder.jpg
	Artist Name\Album Name

When I use you options and

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1. Plugin: tc / full (file) name / !contains / "myfile.txt" 
2. Line: Plugin: tc / directory / = / YES
and
1. Line: Plugin: tc / full (file) name / != / "myfile.txt"
2. Line: Plugin: tc / directory / = / YES

See screendumps
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3261/tcsearchop1.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/864/tcsearchop2.jpg

Regards, Mark

[HolgerK]

As Hacker pointed out:
TC.Fullname is not the content of a directory but the complete path string of the file or directory.

If you want to search for folders that do contain or do not contain a specific file you should try another approach.
E.g.:
- Install the Script Content Plugin
- Save the following script to the plugin dir:

<NoFolderJpg.vbs>

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'--- NoFolderJpg.vbs,  HolgerK
'-----       Search for folder which does not contain a folder.jpg file
'--- Script for Script Content Plugin 0.2
'--- Lev Freidin (c) 2005-2008
'--- http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/script_wdx.html
'--- http://wincmd.ru/plugring/script_wdx.html

Dim fso, folder, fileCollection
Searchfilename = LCase("folder.jpg")
content = "Not present"
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fso.FolderExists(filename) Then
	Set folder = fso.GetFolder(filename)
	Set fileCollection = folder.Files
	If fileCollection.Count = 0 Then
		content = "Empty Folder(no files!)"
	Else
		For Each file in fileCollection
			If LCase(file.Name) = Searchfilename Then
				content = "Present"
				Exit For
			End If
		Next
	End If
else
	content = "Not a folder"
End If
Set fileCollection = Nothing
set folder = Nothing
set fso = Nothing

- modify the <script.ini> file to:

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[Script]
Section=NoFolderJpg

[NoFolderJpg]
Script=NoFolderJpg.vbs
LongName=1
ParseDirs=1

- Search for(plugins tabs):

[x] Search in plugins:
[script] [result] [=] [Not present]

HTH
Holger

[MeTAlMollY]

HolgerK, thanks this works fine!

I already knew the script plugin, but I thought TC supports such specific searches out of the box.
For me it doesn't look like a very uncommon request "Display all folders (starting at a certain subdirectory level) not holding a specific file"?

Regards,
Mark

[HolgerK]

Hmmh, "specific search" and "common task" does not really fit together.

It's the way TC can be expanded to support specific tasks: content plugins.

BTW: another way is to modify the script in this way:
<FolderList.vbs>

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'--- FolderList.vbs,  HolgerK
'-----       Return the list of files contained in a folder as '|' separated string
'--- Script for Script Content Plugin 0.2
'--- Lev Freidin (c) 2005-2008
'--- http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/script_wdx.html
'--- http://wincmd.ru/plugring/script_wdx.html

Dim fso, folder, fileCollection
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fso.FolderExists(filename) Then
	Set folder = fso.GetFolder(filename)
	Set fileCollection = folder.Files
	content = "|"
	content1 = fileCollection.Count
	For Each file in fileCollection
		content = content + LCase(file.Name) + "|"
	Next
else
	content = ""
	content1 = 0
End If
Set fileCollection = Nothing
set folder = Nothing
set fso = Nothing

<scipt.ini>

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[Script]
Section=FolderList

[FolderList]
Script=FolderList.vbs
LongName=1
ParseDirs=1 

and define a search like this:

[x] Search in plugins:
[script] [result1] [!=] [0]
[script] [result] [!contains] [|folder.jpg|]

A little bit more flexible, because the searched filename is variable, but this may be limited to the maximum string length supported by TC (don't know the exact value here).

Regards
Holger

[VadiMGP]

2MeTAlMollY
You can also try FileMask plugin.

[Peter]

...
- Save the following script to the plugin dir:

<NoFolderJpg.vbs>
...

Does it really work? I changed "content" to "result", but I get no resulkt..

Peter

[fenix_productions]

2MeTAlMollY
Maybe this will help:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=19993

[HolgerK]

...
- Save the following script to the plugin dir:

<NoFolderJpg.vbs>
...

Does it really work? I changed "content" to "result", but I get no resulkt..

Hmmh yes it works here. Just did a test again with the code from my posting.
Saved Search from wincmd.ini:

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NoFolderJpg_SearchFor=
NoFolderJpg_SearchIn=
NoFolderJpg_SearchText=
NoFolderJpg_SearchFlags=0|000002000020|||||||||0000|
NoFolderJpg_plugin="script.Result = "Not Present""

- Did you adapt the scrip.ini file in the plugin dir?
- Please do not change the variable name "content"{N} in the vbs-file!
These variables are used by the plugin to create the content of the "script.result{N}" fields.

About the second script <FolderList.vbs>:
The limitation of the string lenght used in TC7.04a seem to be a maximum of ~1024 characters.
So this will fail in case of directories with more then 20 files, where each file has an average file length about 50 characters.

Regards
Holger