Serious question: Are there any promising implementations of TCC-like file descriptions in the Linux environment? Is there a suite of tools available under Linux to add, edit, delete single-line file descriptions of a file, and that will somehow persist when the file is copied, renamed, or moved...

I think AutoHotKey might be a very good candidate for this purpose. Free tool, open source, extremely powerful.

Hi Yen, I use ConEmu literally every day and I have it default to TCC as the command shell, with Cygwin bash as the next "go-to" shell. ConEmu integrates perfectly with FAR, the dual-panel File Archiver. It presents a two-pane file manager for tag, copy, move, delete, edit, view operations...

Two of my former employers (entirely different companies) gave admin rights to the technicians, who were allowed to install any software that didn't require a license fee, so I could install TCC/LE ver.13. In both cases, I was not allowed to install commercial versions of Take Command or TCC...

Thanks to those who are beginning the discussion. Let me be more direct in what I mean by "real examples." In Cygwin and GNU/Linux, I can do something like this: locate --null --regex "^filepattern" | xargs --null command -options and a set of files will be passed, one at a time, to xargs...

I would like to see a more particular explanation of how Everything (the voidtools utility) ought to be used in conjunction with Take Command. I have already looked at the help file, and it doesn't answer what I'm seeking. I want to know more particularly the pros and cons of different...

I would like to hear recommendations for file managers, currently supported or compatible with Windows 8, which display Take Command/TCC file descriptions. I am partial to two-pane, Norton Commander-like file managers, but I'd like to first know what's available. Even better would be the ability...

Just discovered this page on Take Command/4DOS this evening: Introduction, file properties, pet tricks, recursive actions, more. http://mindprod.com/jgloss/takecommand.html Appears to be recently updated.

I just downloaded TCMD v16.03.52 x64 (planning to upgrade) and discovered a bug in the IDE v16.0. Please check to see if someone else can reproduce it. 1. Invoke by typing "ide" at a TCC prompt from a TCMD session. 2. This installation is unregistered, so click "Continue". 3. Ctrl-O to open...

I believe the problem you're experiencing is caused by improper syntax for the perl system() command. The syntax should be: system("program-name", "redirection-argument"); Try running perldoc -f system and note the statement: Hope this helps.

Steve, thanks for this info. I was testing with TCC v12 and TCC/LE v13 and reading the documentation from v13, and was unaware that these internal variables from FFIND were not available in version 12, nor in TCC/LE. I see that they are available in later versions of TCC, and I appreciate the...

FWIW, I do not get these results with WinXP 32-bit, TCMD v14.00.29. Someone with 64-bit Win7 should test on their version. Here's my results: [C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD14]type updater.ini | tpipe /simple=23 | tpipe /simple=24 /output=test.me [C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD14]fc /b updater.ini...

Steve wrote: I do not get the same results. Look that this screen dump from my system. The command line has been simplified for demonstration purposes. [TCC]$ ver /r TCC 12.11.73 Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] TCC Build 73 Windows XP Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Registered to Eric Pement - 1...

Thorsten, I don't believe there's anything wrong with FFIND in TCC, except that maybe those internal variables don't work the way we think they do. First, one can visually see how normal pipes read from standard input (stdin), not standard error (stderr), by running the following test under...

Thanks for the thought, Frank. So for Thorsten's question, try this from a TCC or TCC/LE prompt. The application to the original post is obvious. echoerr testme |& grep -q testme && echo matched || echo no match echoerr testme |& grep -q metoo && echo matched || echo no match Of course, you...