Re: Newbie can't get gnu grep to produce results

On Jul 26, 5:48 am, Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]> wrote:
> RichardL <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Jul 25, 11:39 am, Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> RichardL <[email protected]> writes:
> >> > K:\Temp\GnuTest>grep -l -i 'hello' *.txt
>
> >> I know not much of MS-DOS and even less of MS-Windows, but ISTR that
> >> the * is not expanded by COMMAND.COM.  grep finds no file named
> >> '*.txt' so it prints nothing, which is as documented.
>
> >> Try:
>
> >>    grep -l -i hello song.txt HelloWorld.txt
>
> >> If that works, then downloadhttp://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
> >> install cygwin, and use bash as shell instead of COMMAND.COM.
> >> Unix shells do expand characters such as * themselves.
>
> > Thanks Pascal,
>
> > The command you recommended worked perfectly,  i.e. it reported back
> > both filenames.
>
> > I am in the process of trying out Win-Bash because it advertises
> > itself as being self-contained, i.e no DLLs to worry about.  Do you
> > think Cygwin's bash is substantially superior to Win-Bash?  While I
> > await learning your opinion, I'll fool around with it.
>
> I don't know Win-Bash, it might be perfect.
>
> Honestly, cygwin installs a whole unix-like environment (with DLLs),
> so you may prefer Win-Bash.
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                    http://www.informatimago.com/
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Thanks, Pascal,

As I just posted to Stan, I'm happy with the results I've gotten thus
far with my Win-Grep trials.

BTW, I think I'm a hopeless dilettante:  I'm presently working on
enhancing my JavaScript knowledge along with Ruby & Rails,  but I
followed the link to the Common Lisp article and decided to try try
that out.  I was delighted to see that you worked on a machine to play
one of my favorite games: Go.
--
Richard

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