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From: louie@rruxi.bae.bellcore.com (Paul Louie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: grep for MS-DOS
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Date: 13 Jul 90 14:19:58 GMT
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> Subject: grep and sort for a PC
> Message-ID: <1990Jul12.165841.1643@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
> Date: 12 Jul 90 16:58:41 GMT
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> Reply-To: pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov
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> Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
>
> Hi there. I hope I've got the right newsgroup(s) for this question: a friend
> of mine who has a PC wants programs to do generalized sorting and searching,
> so I figured grep and sort would fit the bill.  I doubt that he wants to
> change from MSDOS to Unix just to get this capability, so can anyone refer
> me to a source of these programs running under MSDOS?
>
> Please e-mail replies; I'm not a PC person myself.
>
> This is news.  This is your       |    Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
>brain on news.  Any questions?    |    (pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov)

If I understand your question correctly.  You want to do "grep" like function
in MS-DOS right?  The command is FIND, but unlike grep it can't be entered on
its own.  It can only be used when it is piped to.  Here are the examples:

1) Want to know all batch files on the system (files that has "bat" as extension

	dir *.bat | find ".bat"

2) List all directories:

	dir |find "<DIR>"

3) List all lines in a file that has the word apple:

	type filename |find "apple"