Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 22:42:28 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: glarkin@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, merlyn@stonehenge.com Subject: Re: perl qstn... Message-ID: <20100405054228.GA1800@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <201004050114.o351ELJx016272@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201004050114.o351ELJx016272@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:14:21PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Apr 4 17:14:17 2010 > > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:13:49 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> > > To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>, glarkin@freebsd.org, > > FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: perl qstn... > > > > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:58:35AM -1000, parv@pair.com wrote: > > > in message <20100404203951.GB47459@thought.org>, > > > wrote Gary Kline thusly... > > > > > > > > ---Maybe you can clue me in on this one: around a dozen years ago > > > > i somw found a recursive grep named tgrep online. to save tying, > > > > i renamed it "rgr". i can start anywhere and 'rgr pattern' > > > > --WITHOUT ANY ASTERISK-- will find any pattern and skip binary or > > > > tarballs or compressed files. given this, rgr has become my > > > > favorite utility, but since it doesn't have All of grep's > > > > options, yes, it's tru e, there are times whrn i have to use the > > > > real thing. i have searched for tgrep and cannot find a newer > > > > more complete version. would you or anyone reading this know > > > > where an upgraded version is? > > > > > > > > Here is the Usage string: > > > > > > > > p4 13:07 <tao> [5524] rgr > > > > Usage: tgrep [-iredblLnf] regexp filepat ... > > > > tgrep -h for help [[ ... ]] > > Google to the rescue. Given the program name, and the author, one finds that > this code was in "UNIX Power Tools" (O'Reilly * Assoc.) > right; i've got the power tools book front and center. it must have come with tgrep on a floppy. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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