Re: FN-FORUM RE: Grep for windows

date posted 26th January 2003 12:27

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)


> > "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
> Bramshott Consultants Ltd
> http://www.bramscons.co.uk
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