How to? PDir on multiple wildcard patterns...

[mathewsdw]

Maybe there's a way to do this that I haven't figured out yet, but it would sure be nice if I could do a PDir on multiple wildcard patterns without going to the trouble of writing a full-fledged regular expression. (I've been exposed to so many regular expression syntaxes over the years that I'm no longer able to keep them straight in my mind.) Specifically, I often do a PDir like this to find a particular spreadsheet that I'm interested in:

PDir *.xls /s /A-D /(dy/m/d th:m:s zc fpn) | Sort | List

but I'd also like to do it (and combine the output into a single composite) with a PDir like this:

PDir *.cvs /s /A-D /(dy/m/d th:m:s zc fpn) | Sort | List

As of yet I haven't found a way to do this except by executing both PDir's individually concatenating their outputs into a single temporary work file which is kind of a pain because it involves multiple steps (including remembering to delete the work file when done).

Is there an easy way to do this? If so, how?

 

[Steve Fabian]

Try this:

PDir /s /A-D /(dy/m/d th:m:s zc fpn) *.cvs;*.xls | Sort | List

Note: I moved the options to be immediately after the command name, which is the only GUARANTEED location for their correct interpretation.

 

[mathewsdw]

Thanks, Steve, that worked of course. It's kind of random where I put the options on commands (the order in which I happen to think of them) because I've never run into a situation where it made a difference until now and I truly did think that where the non-keyword options were was totally irrelevant.