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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is there a MacGrep out there?
Message-ID: <1991May1.185158.2846@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 1 May 91 18:51:58 GMT
References: <1991May1.131857.490@searchtech.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <1991May1.131857.490@searchtech.com>, by davidr@searchtech.com (David Resnick):
> Does anyone out there know of a grep utility for the Mac?  I know there
> are some folks that are porting their Mac code to UNIX machines just to
> use grep and other utilities, but perhaps someone has an MPW tool that
> does greping of some sort (e.g., searching through files for a word or
> phrase)?  Thanks in advance!

Uh.  If you have MPW, you have 'search,' which is the moral equivalent of
grep.  You also have streamedit (sed-like), sort, and analogs for most
of the more useful Unix tools.  Most unix-heads climb into MPW and get
real comfortable inside of an hour or two (after posting the special-
character equivalences over the screen, and putting a few aliases in).

If you don't have MPW, there's GoFer, which is grep for lotsa text-like
objects (and comes free when you buy DiskTop).  A more expensive option is
On Location, which maintains an index of textoids.  OL is fast, but
costly in terms of disk space.

Hope that helps.

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com