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- From: joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: (Q) Looking for a multi-file grep program for Mac
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 03:59:02 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Keywords: grep
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- joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim) writes:
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- >The subject line says it all. I tried MacGrep but this searches only one
- >file. Is there a program that searches many files at the same time for a
- >string pattern?
-
- >Please email me.
-
- >Thanks.
-
- >John
-
- I already got several answers to my question from Rich Siegel, Glenn Howes,
- Masatsugu Nagata and Catherine Caston. Nagata's reply was most extensive, so
- I will post only his, which subsumes others' reply. Yet I would like to thank
- all who replied to me.
-
- From: Masatsugu Nagata <nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
- Return-Path: <nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 20:16:32 JST
- Message-Id: <9212151116.AA02765@hakobe>
- To: joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim)
- In-Reply-To: joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu's message of 14 Dec 1992 20:52:54 -0800
- Subject: (Q) Looking for a multi-file grep program for Mac
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-
- Almost ALL of available Mac _text editors_ can do that.
- (Multi-file, regular expression search).
-
- By far the most powerful one is:
-
- QUED/M 2.5 (commercial, Nisus Software, 619-481-1477)
- The Sytem 7 savvy version 2.5 has just appeared.
- $30 if you have an earlier version, $50 otherwise.
- Grep function is virtually equivalent to Unix's.
- (The interface is totally different, though.)
-
- You can select ANY set of files from any folders, to
- start a search.
-
-
- The big brother of QUED/M, Nisus, is "THE word processor".
- This one is equally powerful as QUED/M, only that it's big,
- more features (graphics, styles, ...), and expensive.
-
- Both QUED/M and Nisus are powerful, lightening-quick, and robust.
-
-
- The next best is Rich Siegel's 'BBEdit 2.2' (freeware).
- Look at info-mac/bbedit-22.hqx; 436K, and bbedit-22-man.hqx; 315K.
-
- This also does powerful, robust and fast grep multifile search.
- You select a Folder, and BBEdit searches all files in all
- subfolders in it.
-
- It's "batch mode" output is probably the style of output you have in mind.
-
- As a text editor, it is equally robust as QUED/M, but less featured.
- (But it's free!)
-
-
- Another excellent choice is Pete Keleher's 'Alpha 5.2' (shareware, $25).
- This one requires System 7, but it's by far the most powerful Mac editor.
- Programmable, unlimited macros, etc., etc.
-
- Multifile search capability is somewhat inferior to QUED/M or BBEdit,
- though. It can only search all files in one folder at a time (not the
- nested search), and the search is slower.
-
-
- Two more freeware/shareware choices:
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- Hiroo Yamada's 'ASLEdit+ 1.0a35' (info-mac/app/asl-edit-10a35.hqx)
- (freeware), and
- Kenneth Seah's 'Edit II 2.11' (info-mac/app/edit-ii-211.hqx; 95K)
- (shareware, $15).
-
- Both have the standard set of grep multifile search.
-
-
- I have all of them but I use BBEdit for multifile search,
- QUED/M for complicated GREP search/replace and file comparison, and
- Alpha 5.2 for everything else.
-
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Mark
- --
- Mark Nagata
- nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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- Joung-woo John Kim joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu
- Computer Science Dept.
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
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