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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias/command to search a set path
« on: August 08, 2008, 06:42 AM »
That's brilliant. Thanks for the explanation - it does indeed do pretty much exactly what I want.

One further question, if I may. Is there a way of further restricting the list by running a specific check on each file found? I appreciate that this may need a plugin or alias to achieve. The reason I ask is that my "Utils" directory contains a lot of programs, some of which are console utilities, not suitable for running from a GUI tool like FARR. So I'd like to exclude them. I can get most of what I want by simply excluding the relevant directories, but being able to run a check for GUI-mode programs would work regardless of directory structure.

In practice, it may not be important, as FARR's approach of boosting the priority of programs I've used before is likely to be at least as effective. But I'm curious to know if it's possible.

Thanks,
Paul

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Find And Run Robot / Alias/command to search a set path
« on: August 08, 2008, 05:07 AM »
This may be possible, but I haven't been able to find the way to do it. I'm new to tailoring FARR's behaviour, so I could easily have missed something. If it's not, could it be treated as a feature request?

I'd like to be able to set up an alias to search a specific set of directories (something like the standard search folders, but for this alias only and probably only one or two folders) and return the executables which match the alias argument. (Ideally, I'd like to be able to filter the list further to exclude console executables - which I can detect using an external program or script - but that may be a bit too complex/slow).

Essentially, I have a directory full of "portable" applications (which don't install shortcuts in the start menu) and I'd like to be able to launch them just by typing in the executable name.

Paul.

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