Hi Tom,

On 7/2/2025 15:55, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote:
> 
>> It's a port of GNU grep 2.0 (1992).  It does not support recursion by
>> itself yet (-r).  Therefore one would need a real mode port of GNU or
>> BSD find, which unfortunately does not seem to be available for FreeDOS.
> 
>> Couple options then:
> 
>> 1. Add /S support to FDOS FIND;
> 
>> 2. Port GNU or BSD find (circa 1992 to keep things simple) to FDOS using
>> Open Watcom (grep has been ported to DOS using MSC).
> 
> 3. Port grep to Watcom
> 
> teach grep recursive search

True!  That's another possibility.


> in the end, the only option is to start coding. A real programmer would have 
> finished 
> recursive search, and probably regexp port by now. Instead you write emails. 
> Have fun!

You might well be right.  But I wonder, real programmers waste their
time replying to me with words or with code?


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