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Article #69Re: GREP supporting wildcard filenames..
From: goathunter
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 13:05
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 ------ Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!ukma!netnews.louisville.edu!wkuvx1!goathunter From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.d Subject: Re: GREP supporting wildcard filenames.. Message-ID: <1992Sep1.080501.2102@wkuvx1.bitnet> Date: 1 Sep 92 08:05:01 CDT References: <1992Sep1.212638.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au> Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY Lines: 26