HI Mark,

mark lewis wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

 RW> so, the question is who likes what for a drop-in command line
 RW> replacement for the ms dos find. Iirc there were a couple in my old
 RW> bfds archives back in the day.

ml> depending on what you are using it for, i use grep from the *nix
ml> world... 

Had a copy of that in my files areas on the old bbs stuff that burned.  A
dos version even .

Mainly to grab text from one file and import it into another is my main
purpose. Find works great for counting occurrences of a string, or deleting
lines containig it, but getting it reliable for grabbing actual text is a
pita thanks to the line numbers. wIll have to see about finding a dos
version of grep (again) as we all know what happened to my old bbs stuff
>

Regards,
           Richard
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