Hi Folks,
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:47:33 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a very nice DOS-based text string search
> program that can search for a phrase throughout an entire
> directory full of text files?
Have you tried FGREP (Fast GREP) for DOS ?
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FGREP 1.83
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Purpose
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FGREP (Fast GREP) is a small utility that can be used to find
strings of characters in ASCII text files, and arbitrary
sequences of bytes in other files. String search capabilities
are not extensive (no regular expressions), but FGREP is small
and very, very fast. FGREP is intended to replace the FIND
filter with something faster and more flexible.
UNIX people: we fully realize that this isn't the grep or fgrep
with which you are familiar. We know that the RE in GREP means
"regular expressions" and that we don't support regular
expressions. However, the name serves to point people in the
right direction. Please don't write to tell us that this "isn't
really fgrep".
FGREP386
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FGREP386.COM is a version of FGREP.COM that requires an 80386
or better. It should be slightly faster than FGREP.COM (don't
expect anything spectacular). If you have an 80386 a higher
CPU, just erase FGREP.COM and rename FGREP386.COM to FGREP.COM.
Syntax
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FGREP's syntax is
FGREP [options] target [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are many "options", but the most common use is very
simple:
FGREP hello myfile.txt
This command would display all lines of MYFILE.TXT that contain
the character string "hello".
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I can email the original ZIP.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
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