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From: | codea AT iona DOT com |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: RHIDE SUGGESTION |
Date: | Sun, 09 Mar 1997 14:20:42 +0000 |
Organization: | EUnet Ireland customer |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
G.P. Tootell wrote: > it's not much use under dos really because the 'find' command does pretty > much the same thing. > try 'find "hello" filename' for instance. (which would be 'grep 'hello' < > filename' under unix) grep also allows the use of regular expressions which is far more powerful than the simple string searches supported by DOS' find. This allow you to do stuff like c:> grep "hell[ o]" filename which would give all instances of the string "hell" or "hello" in the specified file. Silly example but its worth checking out. rgds Conrad
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