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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ``tgrep'' from Unix Power Tools
To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:14:13 +0000 ()
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In-Reply-To: <199608060508.WAA09593@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Aug 5, 96 10:08:47 pm
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> 
>    Has anyone used the short `tgrep' perl script from the UNIX 
>    POWER TOOLS book?  It works on my Sun and fails with a strange
>    error blurb on my FreeBSD machine.
> 
>    tgrep grep only text file, skipping directories and binaries.

If it's the same tgrep as the one in the "Camel book", I'm sure it
ought to work.  Could you post a copy of it and tell us what the
exact error message is?