🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <910784101snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john$@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:

>I constantly find myself typing things like:
>
>        grep foobar *.c
>        [pause to eyeball result]
>        edit thisfile.c thatfile.c tother.c yafile.c etc.c
>
>And that really bugs me.  The damn computer knows which files
>I want already.  I could even have used the -l option in grep
>to get a little list of them.

>Oh, and yes OF COURSE it's easy-peasy in Unix, but being a
>dinosaur I'm running msdos.

If you have a DJGPP compiled editor & grep:

  grep -l foobar *.c | xargs emacs  (xargs is from findutils)

or if you're into bash:

  bash -c 'emacs `grep -l foobar *.c`'

or just:

  grep -l foobar *.c > cmdfile
  emacs @cmdfile

Depending on the editor, you could call grep -l from within the 
editor and parse the results.  Alternatively something like
'emacs *.c' and search the files from within the editor.  I believe
there's a DJGPP port of VIM available...

Current DJGPP FAQ for reference:
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq211b.zip

Cheers, Graham.
-- 
Graham E. Kinns -------------------------- <Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk>
"I've done many things that have gotten very popular but amongst a
 sorta nerdy community ... because the kinda stuff I do is stuff that
 I have no idea how to explain it to my mom" - James Gosling.