Maybe Not So Hard Pdir Question

[jackw19]

My almost dream directory listing is aliased as:

pdir /(-20.20fnq) /( dd-m-y th:m zc -i) * /D/K/M/Og/P

This gives both long filenames and descriptions. Don't like long names, but they are an unfortunate fact of life now.

Maybe someone can suggest a way to implement the following changes:

1) I'd like to separately left justify the filenames and prefixes, separated by space(s) and no dot. This functionality is available with /J in dir, but apparently not in pdir. And even if it was, /J uses shortened names. Undoubtedly there are TCC functions that parse filenames and put them back together in the desired format, but I have not mastered this arcane art.

2) When a long description wraps, the tail starts at the beginning of the next line. Is there a convenient way to line up the wrap with the first column of the description field?

Thanks in advance.

 

[JohnQSmith]

Here are some parsing commands added to part 1) of your question.

Note:
Filenames and extensions will be truncated to 20 and 4 characters, respectively, if they are longer. In addition from my own testing, filenames longer than 19 characters with spaces in them will be truncated to 19 characters with a leading quote but no trailing quote.

pdir /(-20.20@quote[%%@name[*]]) /(-4.4@ext[*]) /( dd-m-y th:m zc -i) * /D/K/M/Og/P