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Subject: Re: OT/Re: linux issues

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 12:29:31 05/25/02

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On May 24, 2002 at 18:17:52, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On May 24, 2002 at 14:39:19, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On PC, I have solved this since a long time by writting my own variation of
>>grep. But there are anyway thousands out there that you can get for free.
>
>The DOS shell has a "find" command, which works a lot like grep.



Yes but FIND assumes that the files you are searching in are text files.

I wanted to be able to find the string "version" in binary files for example.

So I wrote an utility that makes no assumption on the type of the files to
search and can be used to do various things neither find nor grep can do.



    Christophe



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