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From: rrr@u02.svl.cdc.com (Rich Ragan)
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Subject: Re: "grep"-like utility for Mac?
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Date: 1 Jan 91 23:38:27 GMT
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In <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.
I believe a version of grep exists that runs under Apple's
MPW programming shell. Unfortunately, unless you are already
an MPW user this is probably not of much good to you.

The only other product I know of is On Location which indexes
all files on your hard disk by name and content and allows you
to list all files with a certain string in them. In some ways
this is better than grep because you get everything on your
disk handled. In other ways it is worse because you may see
more than you want and you must bear overhead for storing the
indexes and the time to index everything. This is normally done
in the background but if you haven't let it run in a while
your search may be incomplete so you have to run it before
searching.
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