11 File finder
Back in ancient times, one of the most popular MS-DOS utilities I wrote was the Fast File Finder. It wasn’t particularly fast, of course. But it did the job of finding a file anywhere on the PC’s hard drive when given a filename. This program was included on the companion floppy diskettes provided with many of my early computing books. Yes, floppy diskettes.
In today’s operating systems, finding files is a big deal. Both Windows and Mac OS X feature powerful file-finding tools, locating files by not only name but also date, size, and content. The Linux command prompt offers its own slate of file-finding tools, just as powerful (if not more so) as their graphical counterparts. For a budding C programmer, or anyone desiring to build ...
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