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Subject: Re: RHIDE SUGGESTION
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 14:20:42 +0000
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G.P. Tootell wrote:

> it's not much use under dos really because the 'find' command does pretty
> much the same thing.
> try 'find "hello" filename' for instance. (which would be 'grep 'hello' <
> filename' under unix)

grep also allows the use of regular expressions which is far more
powerful than 
the simple string searches supported by DOS' find.  This allow you to do
stuff like 

c:> grep "hell[ o]" filename

which would give all instances of the string "hell" or "hello" in the
specified file.
Silly example but its worth checking out.

rgds
Conrad