Hallo Herr Bruno Ribeiro via Freedos-devel, am Freitag, 7. Februar 2025 um 17:28 schrieben Sie:
> On 7/2/2025 11:00, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: >> >>>> 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 :-) > Practically, 100% agree! Theoretically, my problem with it is twofold: > 1. GNU's not DOS ;) > 2. Seriously, though, that's not viable for anyone running DOS on a 286- > system. > I think a 8086 FreeDOS system should be able to at least automatically > and recursively search for fixed strings within all text files within a > given directory. You asked for an opportunity to contribute. Here is your first opportunity to be useful: teach FIND to search recursively; and while you are at it, teach it "expressions". Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
