Re: FN-FORUM RE: Grep for windows

date posted 26th January 2003 12:55

Or, if you have it to hand, and are happy to write 3 or 4 lines of driver
code, Java 1.4 has a nice GREP package, or there's Jakarta ORO at
jakarta.apache.org/oro. The Windows versions of Perl and Python both have
nice Greps, too.

Graham

> Find is too weak.
> Findstr - this rings a vague bell from the past,
> but I don't have it on my Win98 System
>
> Cygwin looks interesting - will give that a go!
>
> Thanks, Richard!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Parratt" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:28 PM
> Subject: FN-FORUM RE: Grep for windows (was radar detectors, etc)
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>
> > > "I can't be bothered to google, and don't want to go and look
> > > on phpresource index, hotscripts, sourceforge, freshmeat, tucows etc
> > > but: is there a grep for windows?"
> >
> > Windows Explorer will find files by content.
> >
> > FIND & FINDSTR do the same from the command line.
> >
> > If you need a full grep, cygwin includes grep - need to have the cygwin
> DLLs
> > to go with it.
> >
> > Richard Parratt
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