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Re: GREP supporting wildcard filenames..

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From: goathunter
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 13:05
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In article <1992Sep1.212638.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>, brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan) writes:
> 	Somewhere in the past year I'd found the DECUS grep utility.
> 	The other day someone here complained that it didn't support
> 	wildcards on the filenames, so they reckoned it was useless...
> 	
> 	A quick search turned up the ELVIS vi clone sources, which contain
> 	a neat trick. the VMSWILD.C include file allows you to have wildcard
> 	support quite easily. After about 10 minutes, GREP now supports
> 	wildcards :-)
> 
> 	if you're interested, ftp (anonymous) to coco.cchs.su.oz.au
> 	ftp> cd [.grep]
> 
> 	I hope this isn't some old, old hack that everyone already has... :-}
-- 
I don't know which version you're using, but my port of GNU grep uses
SHELL_MUNG.C, which does support wildcards.

You can get it via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu in [.MACRO32] or by
sending the command SEND GREP in the body of a mail message to
FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET.

Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
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Subject: Re: GREP supporting wildcard filenames..
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