What's the DOS equivalent of the Unix find-grep combo for searching
recursively within a directory all files matching a given criteria for
strings within them matching a given expression?
Put in other words, more simply, how do I find within \freedos hierarchy
which text files have the string "foobar" occurring in them?
Looking for a DOS-centric way of doing that. As last resort I know I
can always install DJGPP's find and grep.
That would actually be a good way to do it, if you ask me :-)
You could rename one of the FIND to keep DOS and GNU distinguishable.
On PC DOS 7, there's find /s, but I don't think any other version of DOS
(including DR DOS or Win9x) supports that and I have no idea about FreeDOS.
A freeware method to do this might be using LOCATE:
C:\>locate /?
LOCATE.COM v1.26a 04-17-1999 C. Dye raster highfiber.com
Freeware. Copyright 1995-1999, Charles Dye. No warranty!
Syntax: LOCATE [filespec] [switches]
/H Hidden or system /D- find files, not Directories
/X .COM, .EXE, .BAT /D+ find Directories only
/Fn only First n items /D find both (default)
/A check Attributes /T path search
/0 0-byte files /R local hard drives only
/G Go to directory /K Kill (delete) items
/N bare Naked display /W Wide display
/S Summary info only /P Peter-style display
/L Win95 Long filenames /NP No Paging
/B:"command" Batch output /D:[start][,end] Date range
/O:"string" macro Output /T:[start][,end] Time range
/C:"string" run Commands /S:[small][,big] Size range
Space between the filespec and any switches. Output will be paged
unless it is redirected or /NP used. Specify default switches in a
LOCATE= variable. Try /D? /T? /S? /A? /B? or /O? for more help.
However, it will probably be slow to use /B or C to invoke a fresh
instance of DOS FIND or GNU GREP for each file found by LOCATE?
So there will be better methods, looking forward to hear about them!
Regards, Eric
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