On 7/2/2025 11:42, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, Bruno Ribeiro via Freedos-devel wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> On 7/2/2025 10:51, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: >>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, Bruno Ribeiro 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. >>> >>> 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. >> >> Unfortunately, it seems FreeDOS does not support it as well: >> >> C:\FREEDOS>find/? >> FreeDOS Find, version 3.0 >> GNU GPLv2 - copyright 1994-2007 by Jim Hall, Eric Auer and Imre Leber >> FIND: Prints all lines of a file that contain a string >> FIND [ /C ] [ /I ] [ /N ] [ /V ] "string" [ file... ] >> /C Only count the matching lines >> /I Ignore case >> /N Show line numbers >> /V Print lines that do not contain the string >> >> C:\FREEDOS> > > That makes sense. It's on keel with MS-DOS 6.22, which is FreeDOS' > intention.
I see. But that's more like the minimum goal of FreeDOS, right? To be at least as good as MS-DOS 6.22. The recursive feature wouldn't be rejected or a bad idea at all, I presume? > I did write my own FIND, but it doesn't support /S either. Using some > GNUey version of grep or fgrep is probably your best bet. Sure! Unfortunately not viable on a 286- system, I think? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
