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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac equivalent of "grep" needed ... answer: On-Location!
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.082112.14374@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 26 Jul 90 08:21:12 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.185505.16535@ecn.purdue.edu> <2001@cfa253.cfa250.harvard.edu> <3397@leah.Albany.Edu>
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derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover) writes:

>From cliff@cfa250.harvard.edu (Cliff Stoll) come these immortal words:
>>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 [...]?

>>Hey - try On-Location.  It will search your whole hard disk for a particular
>>word.  You can then immedaitely open each file or search through it.

Not to crow about products that aren't yet available, but Norton
Utilities for the Mac has a DA called Fast Find that lets you do this
for filenames.  Directory Assistance (also included) does this from
within any file requester, too.  And it's scarily fast--220 Mbytes in
1.5 minutes on my Mac Plus (anyone who wonders why you'd need >300 megs
on a Mac should go into the data-recovery business!!  Or run UNIX, or
keep Netnews online... :-).  Oh, and you can then launch the app'n (if
that's what it is, or the app'n which launches the document), or "look"
at the file (an "ASCII Barf" view :-) contents.

Hmm, somewhere around here I have a GREP DA, too, but it's old.

	Alex
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