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  3. July 2008

Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files

I may be missing something here, but you can find any string in a file
using nothing more than wrkf and the find command.

You can also map a drive and use the windoze methods if you choose.

The windows method is not nearly as quick as the wrkf method.

Dave Odom wrote:

Seems like the native OS "find" capabilities are WAYYY outdated and not anything like the Windoz Search function. And it also sounds like one must depend on utilities created for other OS's or some other vendor's tools to accomplish a simple global function like search global for a string which is native in most other OS's. If true, it doesn't bode well for the IBM i. How sad.

Dave


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