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- SHORT: grep for tha amiga, 2.04 (or later) only.
-
- grep scans file(s) looking for a given pattern. This pattern is not
- an Unix regexp, but an AmigaDOS pattern; * can be used everywhere as
- synonim of #?. Wildcard characters are allowed in the file name(s),
- everywhere BUT NOT in the device part-e.g. DF0:*/*.c BUT NOT DF*:... .
- The options can be specified alone or together, e.g. grep -i -l ...
- or grep -il ... . Example: grep -il assign s:*
-
- GREP Usage: grep [options] pattern [ File [ File [ ... ]]
- Purpose: Searches files (a pattern can be given in the file
- name(s)) for lines containing a given pattern (with
- the AmigaDOS conventions). If no file names are
- given, grep assumes standard input.
- Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 5
- (warning) if none, 10 (error) for unreadable files
- or other errors.
- Options: -c Print only the number of the matching lines;
- -i Ignore upper/lower case distinctions in the
- comparison;
- -l Print the name of the files with matching lines
- (once);
- -n Precede each line by its line number;
- -v Print all lines except those that contain the
- pattern.
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