In article ,
koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <146c9b6a-7323-4d58-be18-83ad0a5c1553@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>, vancouvercancun@yahoo.ca writes:
>>
>> In despair, I hope somebody has a Windows replacement for the
>> wonderful VMS Search command. The VMS search is so versatile and
>> useful that I am searching for a similar command line tool for the
>> Windows platform.
>
> There is hope. Fortunately UNIX, as poor as you may find it,
> is better than Windows. And cygwin is a very usefull free
> UNIX emulation environment that runs on Windows.
>
> When you load cygwin, you may have to turn on some options to
> get find, grep, and xargs. Then just remember the UNIX mantra:
>
> find | xargs grep

Can be done without xargs, actually.

find -exec grep {} \;

Other options as desired for both commands.

>
> Yeah, I know, I'd rather search, too, but the above beats the
> pants of findstr. And cygwin uses gnu grep, so you can do things
> UNIX grep can't.

Not sure what you consider "UNIX grep" as all of them pretty much use
the GNU junk now. Biggest problem with GNU is they have taken too
many of the Unix utilities and dragged them kicking and screaming out
of the true Unix Paradigm.

bill


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In article <35e90779-7cd8-4244-9639-724a591c3a14@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, vancouvercancun@yahoo.ca writes:
>
>
>On Dec 5, 1:01 pm, AEF wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 1:34 pm, vancouvercan...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 5, 11:59 am, "Richard B. Gilbert"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > > vancouvercan...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> > > > Hi, everybody
>>
>> > > >
>>
>> > > > In despair, I hope somebody has a Windows replacement for the
>> > > > wonderful VMS Search command. The VMS search is so versatile and
>> > > > useful that I am searching for a similar command line tool for the
>> > > > Windows platform.
>>
>> > > > After a little bit of searching, I know of find and findstr.
>> > > > Specifically, I am looking for a command line tool that allows
>> > > > specification of search files using MODified, CREated, SINce and
>> > > > BEFore date modifiers.
>>
>> > > > On VMS, it is so easy to search for something that has happened in
>> > > > yesterday's log file... Why such a simple task is hard on Windows?
>>
>> > > > <\Big desperation sigh>
>>
>> > > > TIA
>> > > > Van
>>
>> > > > NB: Please, keep to the topic and refrain from bashing Windows. Your
>> > > > mom would not approve bashing a crippled OS. ;-)
>>
>> > > It's not hard if you use the Windows interface. The "command line"
>> > > interface is the mortal remains of MSDOS and is nearly useless for most
>> > > purposes.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> > > - Show quoted text -
>>
>> > I am looking for a command line utility because I want to use it in a
>> > batch running at 4h00 AM everyday that will alert me when it finds
>> > some specific string in yesterday's log files. As you can guess, there
>> > is a big number of log files in the directory but I need to find if
>> > some event occurred yesterday.
>>
>> > TIA
>> > Van
>>
>> Have you tried this:
>>
>> Open DCL Lite version 2.21 (2001-088)
>> Copyright (C) Accelr8 Technology Corporation 1991-2001. All rights
>> reserved.
>>
>> [Warning: The Lite version (which I have and use) is buggy. You may
>> need the pay-for version (which I don't have and never used).]
>>
>> Here's the SEARCH HELP:
>>
>> SEARCH
>>
>> The SEARCH command searches the given file(s) for the given
>> string(s). The default file specification for omitted fields is
>> "*.*".
>> Enclose the string(s) to match in quotation marks if they contain
>> any
>> characters other than lowercase letters and digits.
>>
>> Format:
>>
>> SEARCH file-spec[,...] match-string[,...]
>>
>> Additional information available:
>>
>> Parameters Qualifiers
>> /BEFORE /BY_OWNER /CONFIRM /CREATED /EXACT /EXCLUDE /
>> FORMAT
>> /HEADING /HIGHLIGHT /LOG /MATCH /MODIFIED /NUMBERS
>> /REMAINING /SINCE /WINDOW
>> Examples Implementation_Differences
>>
>> SEARCH Subtopic?
>>
>> This is all from the free version, which I have on my PC at work.
>> Oddly, the HELP often assumes it's running on a Unix system. I myself
>> use it to take advantage of DIR/SINCE=-7-00 to see the last week's
>> worth of certain data files that are FTP'd to a Windows system every
>> workday.
>>
>> Here is more info, also from the HELP:
>>
>> ACCELR8
>>
>> Open DCL Lite was developed by Accelr8 Technology Corporation as a
>> way to increase awareness of its commercial Open DCL product and
>> other
>> migration software. Open DCL supports a much larger set of DCL
>> commands
>> and lexical functions, systemwide logical names, indexed files,
>> and more.
>>
>> If you need to move applications and users from VMS to either Unix
>> or NT,
>> Accelr8 can provide the tools and the expertise to get you there.
>>
>> To contact Accelr8:
>>
>> WWW:http://www.accelr8.com E-mail: i...@accelr8.com
>> Phone: 303-863-8088
>> Mail: Accelr8 Technology Corporation
>> 303 E. 17th Ave., Suite 108
>> Denver, CO 80203 USA
>>
>> Topic?- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>DCL Lite would fit the bill. I even used it in another job.
>Unfortunately, the product is unsupported and accelr8 web site does
>not even mention dcl lite(Try to find it!). You also have to run the
>commands inside the shell, not at a DOS prompt. The resource usage is
>also not optimized. I would rather find a command line Search utility.
>
>In fact, now that DCL Lite is mentionned, VMS community would gain if
>DCL Lite was OpenSourced.
>I am sure we could improve the tool for everybody's benefit. If
>somebody has access to DCL Lite owners, talk to them.

There was a piece fo software called PC-DCL which, if you can find
the source, should be able to be compiled for Weendoze today. Its
been the seed to a number of DCL wannabe products.

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