Grep

[Hans Bijvoet]

Some time ago I was used to a very great tool, called Grep. This was a
dos-based utility to search for word(s) inside files.
What is nowadays the best tool for this?
Greetings,
Hans

 

[Niels Dybdahl]

Some time ago I was used to a very great tool, called Grep. This was a

dos-based utility to search for word(s) inside files.
What is nowadays the best tool for this?

The best tool is still grep.
If you use Netbeans, then there is a "find" function.
JBuilder has "Find in path"

Niels Dybdahl

 

[Collin VanDyck]

The best tool is still grep.
If you use Netbeans, then there is a "find" function.
JBuilder has "Find in path"

Niels Dybdahl

Eclipse will also let you do this, searching your workspace for matches
against either plain text or a regular expression. In fact, I think
most IDEs will give you this functionality.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Some time ago I was used to a very great tool, called Grep. This was a
dos-based utility to search for word(s) inside files.
What is nowadays the best tool for this?

"grep" is a Unix utility. It's been ported to many systems, and Google
will doubtlessly find many ports of it. Windows XP has "findstr" which
does nearly all of the same things. It also can recurse throught
multiple directory levels (which is handled by the command shell in
Unix systems).

 

[Ann]

"grep" is a Unix utility. It's been ported to many systems, and Google
will doubtlessly find many ports of it. Windows XP has "findstr" which
does nearly all of the same things. It also can recurse throught
multiple directory levels (which is handled by the command shell in
Unix systems).

If you have the DOS exe file, it might run on WIN XP also. Many
DOS programs do.

 

[David Zimmerman]

Some time ago I was used to a very great tool, called Grep. This was a
dos-based utility to search for word(s) inside files.
What is nowadays the best tool for this?
Greetings,
Hans

goto cygwin.com and get all kinds of Unix tools built for windows. I'm
forced to live in a windows world, but cygwin keeps me sane