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From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.questions,comp.software-eng
Subject: Software Development Tools
Summary: there really isn't a comparison
Keywords: VMS UNIX tools
Message-ID: <1908@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 13:45:23 GMT
References: <401@bionov.UUCP> <425a7504.138a5@hw-allen.UUCP> <328@uncw.UUCP>
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In article <328@uncw.UUCP>, session@uncw.UUCP (Zack Sessions) writes:
> As far as grep and awk are concerned, grep is handled by the DCL Command
> SEARCH. And the functionality of awk, though in no way similar, can be
> done with the optional layered product, Datatrieve.

VMS "search" is in no way as capable as UNIX "grep" -- search is fine for
really simple stuff, but grep also can handle sophisticated cases that
search can't cope with.

Datatrieve is similarly less capable than awk or nawk or gawk. 

The best thing for VMS is to port the GNU tools over and run them
under VMS.