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- From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
- Subject: Re: Need Word Seek/'grep -L'-style share/PD utility
- Message-ID: <21JAN199318291675@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:29:00 GMT
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- In article <C12qED.9H8@world.std.com>, siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel) writes...
- >In article <1993Jan18.205820.9129@news.stolaf.edu> carlsonb@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Bradley P Carlson) writes:
- >>I need a utility that will search a volume for ASCII strings under
- >>Sys.6.x. Something like a PD version of the 'grep -L', "MasterWord
- >>Seek" or Sys.7 'Find' utilities would be perfect.
- >>
- >BBEdit can do this. It's free, and the most recent maintenance version
- >was just posted. It's also available immediately via anonymous FTP
- >from world.std.com, in ~ftp/pub/bbedit.
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- SuperBoomerang, in Now Utilities, will do such a search. MacTools and Norton
- Utilities also have Find utilities as part of their packages, but I don't think
- they are grep. You can give several keywords for them for text searches. All of
- these should work with System 6.
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- Susan Kayser NCF::KAYSER or kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
- Greenbelt, MD
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