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- echo To search past PsL News files for a program or other text, enter:
- echo FGREP "[text]" [filespec1] [filespec2]
- echo
- echo For example, to search all files for astronomy programs, you could enter:
- echo FGREP "astronomy" *.*
- echo
- echo Or to look for shareware author Joe Smith, you would enter:
- echo FGREP "Joe Smith" *.*
- echo
- echo To look for author Joe Smith for just 9/93, enter:
- echo FGREP "joe smith" NEWS9309.*
- echo
- echo To search just the Windows files for an astronomy program:
- echo FGREP "astronomy" *.W?
- echo
- echo To look through all files for a particular category for all months -
- echo (for example: to search the Home and Business sections for "amortization"):
- echo FGREP "amortization" *.HOM *.BIZ or even just: FGREP "amort" *.HOM *.BIZ
- echo (The shorter the text, the more likely you are to find matches.)
- echo
- echo Type \VIEW FGREP.DOC for more info about using Chris Dunford's FGREP.
- echo
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