Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:1673 comp.sys.mac.apps:934
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!vax8530!ke2y
From: ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Try Gofer! (Was Re: MAC equivalent of Unix "grep" needed ...
Message-ID: <4839.26aec202@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 14:12:18 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.185505.16535@ecn.purdue.edu> <2001@cfa253.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Distribution: comp
Lines: 45

From article <1990Jul19.185505.16535@ecn.purdue.edu>, by jmoore@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Moore):
> 
> Is there a Mac Application that works something like "grep" in unix 
> that can search multiple files ? If you know of such a beast let me 
> know. I would especialy like to be able to search multiple files for
> a particular string.

  A lot of people have been mentioning On Location and Fast Find as being
good utilities for this...  I can't debate this (I haven't seen them to 
give them a try), but since it hasn't been mentioned yet,...


  Try 'Gofer', by Microlytics!!!  It has many features like wild card &
'close/flexible' searching (some kind of 'best-fit' algorithm) and 
boolean operators and is also in DA format.  It also features both a
universal mode, in which it will skim through all files and a document-
sensitive mode, in which it will strip out controls from several popular
file formats (i.e. you don't get garbage from Word/PageMaker/etc. formatting
commands).  Multiple folder searches...  And so on.  Also, I've found it to 
be fairly fast (though the larger the file....).

  You can get this in one of two ways:

   1)  Seperately (~ $50 from your favorite 'Akbar & Jeff's Discount Mail-order
       Software Shack'-type outlet)

   2)  Packaged with DiskTop 4.0 (CE Software)  (~ $70 from same)

  Personally, I'd recommend going with the latter.  For only twenty dollars
more, you get (IMHO) one of the best file utilities available as a DA.

  Good luck!!!

  (Additonal Disc.: I don't work for either Microlytics or CE Software.
                    I've just found Disktop & Gofer to be two of the most
                    useful Mac products I've encountered... (again, IMHO))

===============================================================================
|  John T. Chapman                       |                                    |
|                                        |  Witty message under repair...     |
|  ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu             |                                    |
|  ke2y@crnlvax5.bitnet                  |                                    |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|       Disclaimer: These opinions are mine.  You can't have them!            |
===============================================================================