On Jul 26, 5:48 am, Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RichardL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Jul 25, 11:39 am, Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> RichardL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > K:\Temp\GnuTest>grep -l -i 'hello' *.txt > > >> I know not much of MS-DOS and even less of MS-Windows, but ISTR that > >> the * is not expanded by COMMAND.COM. grep finds no file named > >> '*.txt' so it prints nothing, which is as documented. > > >> Try: > > >> grep -l -i hello song.txt HelloWorld.txt > > >> If that works, then downloadhttp://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe > >> install cygwin, and use bash as shell instead of COMMAND.COM. > >> Unix shells do expand characters such as * themselves. > > > Thanks Pascal, > > > The command you recommended worked perfectly, i.e. it reported back > > both filenames. > > > I am in the process of trying out Win-Bash because it advertises > > itself as being self-contained, i.e no DLLs to worry about. Do you > > think Cygwin's bash is substantially superior to Win-Bash? While I > > await learning your opinion, I'll fool around with it. > > I don't know Win-Bash, it might be perfect. > > Honestly, cygwin installs a whole unix-like environment (with DLLs), > so you may prefer Win-Bash. > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GCS d? s++:++ a+ C+++ UL++++ P--- L+++ E+++ W++ N+++ o-- K- w--- > O- M++ V PS PE++ Y++ PGP t+ 5+ X++ R !tv b+++ DI++++ D++ > G e+++ h+ r-- z? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Thanks, Pascal, As I just posted to Stan, I'm happy with the results I've gotten thus far with my Win-Grep trials. BTW, I think I'm a hopeless dilettante: I'm presently working on enhancing my JavaScript knowledge along with Ruby & Rails, but I followed the link to the Common Lisp article and decided to try try that out. I was delighted to see that you worked on a machine to play one of my favorite games: Go. -- Richard > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GM a74 s: d- C+++ N++ w++ PS+ PE tv+ tv b b h++ r-- > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
