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From: jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: "grep"-like utility for Mac?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 20:34:53 GMT
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I have transferred about a Megabyte of text files from a Unix-based
machine to my Mac.  I would like to be able to search through the files
for certain strings by giving a program a list of filenames to search
through.  e.g. in unix:  "grep -ni *.text foobar" to look for "foobar"
in all files with names ending in "text", case insensitive --> return
to me the file names and line numbers.

I have the HyperCard stack "FreeText" and also the "Browser" program,
but these are much more elaborate than what I need.  (Also, I don't
want to use disk space by creating index files).

MacSink works nice for one-file-at-a-time types of jobs, but I want to
be able to have the program look through a set of text files.  

A DA would be especially nice.  Thanks in advance,




Jeff Haferman                            internet: jlhaferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering     DoD 0186  BMWMOA 44469  AMA 460140
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA  52242