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- 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
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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
-