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From: session@uncw.UUCP (Zack Sessions)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Software Development Tools
Keywords: VMS UNIX tools
Message-ID: <345@uncw.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 14:37:56 GMT
References: <401@bionov.UUCP> <425a7504.138a5@hw-allen.UUCP> <328@uncw.UUCP> <1908@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: session@uncw.UUCP (Zack Sessions)
Organization: Math/Computer Science Department
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In article <1908@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes:
<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.

<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.

I am very familiar with SEARCH, and have read the manual page on grep
in preparation of porting it to OS9. I didn't see anything in grep that
SEARCH couldn't do. Did I miss something?

Zack Sessions