I am looking for a consol application that will search inside a group of cab files and tell witch cab file has the file that is being searched for.
Example:
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c:\cabsearch explorer.exe D:\win98\ The file explorer.exe was found in xxxxxx.cab
If such a tool exist it would make my life a lot easier.
Thanks
Petr
Apr 22 2006, 02:29 AM
And what about to use extract with "/A"?
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/A Process ALL cabinets. Follows cabinet chain starting in first cabinet mentioned.
It means if you want to extract explorer.exe, you will just write (based on your example):
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EXTRACT /A D:\WIN98\BASE2.CAB EXPLORER.EXE
Another possibility is to use Total Commander, Alt-F7 (Search), and check "Search archives".
Petr
LLXX
Apr 22 2006, 03:03 AM
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for %a in ( *.cab ) do extract /d %a >> dirlist.txt find /I "explorer.exe" dirlist.txt
charly
Apr 22 2006, 08:39 AM
QUOTE (hankjrfan00 @ Apr 21 2006, 11:03 PM)
I am looking for a consol application that will search inside a group of cab files and tell witch cab file has the file that is being searched for.
Example:
CODE
c:\cabsearch explorer.exe D:\win98\ The file explorer.exe was found in xxxxxx.cab
If such a tool exist it would make my life a lot easier.
Thanks
In the Start Menu - use search command - in Folder or Files line put " * .cab ", and in Files Containing line put the file you are looking for - like " explorer.exe " all with out quotes. Charlie
MDGx
Apr 22 2006, 09:18 PM
Try this: http://www.mdgx.com/last4.htm#EXTRACT and make sure you download EXTCAB.ZIP [link posted in guide above]. Then open those CABL*.TXT files from the ZIP in Notepad. You can also run [if using Win98 SE]:
TYPE CABL98SE.TXT | FIND.EXE/I "WINFILE"
from any DOS box.
CABLIST.BAT [also from zip above] creates a full list of all CABs from any Win9x/ME/Plus!95/Plus!98 setup CD. Open CABLIST.BAT in Notepad to see if u need to modify any lines to match your computer setup.
Hope this helps.
hankjrfan00
Apr 25 2006, 08:15 AM
Thanks everyone this should help me lots.
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