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1.1       root        1: WHERE tries to find files
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                      3: Usage: WHERE [/r dir] [/qte] pattern ...
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                      5: If /q is specified, then WHERE exits with zero if found and 1 if not found.
                      6: 
                      7: If /t is specified, the time and size of the file is displayed.
                      8: 
                      9: If /e is specified, the type of executable is displayed.
                     10: 
                     11: If /r is NOT specified WHERE will attempt to find files matching the patterns
                     12: by walking environment search strings.  By default, WHERE will attempt to find
                     13: the specified files by walking the PATH environment string.  If a pattern is of
                     14: the following form:
                     15: 
                     16:     $environment-name:filename
                     17: 
                     18: then WHERE will walk the specified environment name attempting to find the
                     19: specified file.
                     20: 
                     21: If /r is specified, WHERE will search dir and its subdirectories looking for
                     22: files matching the patterns.  When /r is specified, a pattern may have only
                     23: a filename part.
                     24: 
                     25: The filename part of the pattern may contain wildcards * and ? in the style
                     26: of the *NIX find command.
                     27: 
                     28: WHERE bar                 Find ALL bar along path
                     29: WHERE $foo:bar            Find ALL bar along foo
                     30: WHERE /r \ bar            Find ALL bar on current drive
                     31: WHERE /r . bar            Find ALL bar recursing on current directory
                     32: WHERE /r d:\foo\foo bar   Find ALL bar recursing on d:\foo\foo
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                     38: KEYWORDS: WHERE find walk path environment

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