ipeddir

Sort and print the contents or an abstract of the contents of an Queue on the
UnixBox.

IPEDDIR does an 'ls -1t' to sort the directory on time date and then reads this
file to create the output file directory according to the parameters from the
table.

The parameter file has the following parameters :
	banner:	text for a Directory Banner in FipSeq	default: none
		banner:rnThis is a bannerrn
	hdr:	text for specifying each file hdr in FipSeq	default: ...
		file:rn<b>SNtXKtrn
	nolines: There are no lines of text after the header line
							default: 2 lines
	lines:	No of lines for each file. Specify 0 for ALL lines.
		lines:15				default: 2 lines
	files:	No of files to show			default: 0 for ALL files
		files:60
	search:	Optional search string in FipSeq to select ONLY these items
		search:KEEGAN				default: none
	dir: 'ls' parameter string			default: ls -1t
	dest:	select these destination(s) only	default: all
		(for log files only)
	matchdest: match the destinations		default: perfect match
		USe this to match ap1 = ap or rs1ap = rs
		match on first 3 chrs = matchdest:3
		perfect match (default)	matchdest:0
		match on all but the last chr of the destination :-1
	nocr:	strip CR/NLs from the text	default: do NOT strip CRs
	strip:	Strip all text until this string UNLESS the
		string does not appear in the no of lines
		specified			default: no strip

Only one search string is allowed and only the first 64K of a file is checked.


Input switches :
	Mandatory :
	-d : path/filename for the resulting directory	default: none
	either
	-q : queue to scan				default: none
	or
	-a : archive name				default: none
	-j : logfile date relative to today.	default: 0 for today
		yesterday will be 1, 2days ago 2 etc
	Optional :
	-l : 'ls' parameter string (must be in dbl qtes)default: ls -1t
	-x : strip CR/NLs and leading spaces	default: leave text as is
	-t : parameter table			default: tables/print/EDDIR
	-s : search string - include ONLY files with this string
		This overrides the search string in the parameter file.
							default: none
	-v : print version number and exit

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