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Introduction

How to do things the same way on all computers How to get the SFK tool running instantly The different editions of SFK: OSE, Base, XE

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Tutorial

File handling List all files of a folder, and all sub folders List only selected files in selected sub folders List files using wildcards List the latest or biggest files Find a file quickly in the current directory tree List different files between two folders Run a command on all files of a folder Rename files quickly using patterns List the size of directory tree contents Copy a folder, or parts of it, or only updates Delete or clean up specific files in a folder How to use index files for fast filename lookup Tell where in the PATH a command is run from Create checksums of files Find duplicate files

Find and replace within files Find words in text and binary files Replace words in text and binary files Flexible filter and replace in a single text file Search in files using wildcards and Expressions

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File conversion and processing Convert plain text files between Windows/Linux format Remove TAB characters from text Split large files Collect many text files into one large text Sort text lines alphabetically

Send files via network How to send a file from one computer to another How to transfer many files, or just changed ones

Further useful functions Read or write the clipboard under Windows Convert CSV data to tab separated text Count text lines Write long commands into a script Search environment variables for words

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Backup and transfer of folders A script to backup files to an USB drive Sync holiday snapshot name changes to USB drive Copy a project folder to a new version Upload project files to a build server Optimizing file uploads by modification date

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Xed detailed examples reformat comma separated data convert fixed column data to CSV convert CSV data to XML data convert XML data to CSV data cleaning up a translation file extract two letter words from text

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Large script examples Wiki markup text to HTML conversion using sfk script and xed

HTTP Scripting and Test Automation using sfk script, call, web, perline, xex

Filling an XML file with program meta data using sfk script, xex, version, list, calc, filter, setvar, getvar, xed

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Script creation and debugging tips

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Command Reference

General infos

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Windows/Linux/Mac syntax differences

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file system

sfk list

- list directory tree contents.

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list latest, oldest or biggest files.

list directory differences.

list zip jar tar gz bz2 contents.

sfk filefind - find files by filename

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sfk treesize - show directory size statistics

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sfk copy

- copy directory trees additively

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sfk sync

- mirror tree content with deletion

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sfk rename

- flexible multi file rename

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sfk partcopy - copy part from a file into another one 207

sfk mkdir

- create directory tree

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sfk delete

- delete files and folders

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sfk deltree - delete whole directory tree

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sfk deblank - remove blanks in filenames

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sfk space [-h] - tell total and free size of volume 218

sfk filetime - tell times of a file

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sfk touch

- change times of a file

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sfk index

- create index file(s) for fast lookup 104

sfk name

- lookup file names using index files

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sfk fixfile - change bad filenames and file times

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sfk setbytes - set bytes at offset within a file 349

compression sfk zip sfk zipto sfk unzip sfk checkzip

- create zip file from folder - zip selected file list - list or extract zip file - verify zip file content

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conversion

sfk oload

- load office file content as text

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sfk lf-to-crlf - convert from LF to CRLF line endings

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sfk crlf-to-lf - convert from CRLF to LF line endings

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sfk detab

- convert TAB characters to spaces

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sfk entab

- convert groups of spaces to TAB chars

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