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From: fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Phred Dushin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: "grep"-like utility for Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.182439.4641@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 91 18:24:39 GMT
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In article <3772@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
>I would like to find a utility (maybe a DA) for the Mac which can
>search through a series of text files searching for a given string
>or pattern.

Try Grep-Wc1.2, which should be on the sumex archives.  It's a 
DA which lets you grep strings (with appropriate wildchars)
from standard text files.  You can also word count, and
output to a file.  It is in the public domain.

You can also try my HyperSearch, a HyperCard stack which does
searches on standard text files.  You can do boolean combinations
of strings on single files with any degree of complexity,
depending, of course, on your patience.  HyperSearch, I am
afraid, is tediously slow, especially on the low-end machines.
But it was fun to write.  Let me know if you would like
a copy.  HyperSearch is free.

I've heard Gofer has a grep function, also, but I haven't seen it.

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