perl qstn...

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:14:21PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Sun Apr  4 17:14:17 2010
> > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:13:49 -0700
> > From: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> > To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn at stonehenge.com>, glarkin at freebsd.org,
> >         FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Cc: 
> > Subject: Re: perl qstn...
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:58:35AM -1000, parv at pair.com wrote:
> > > in message <20100404203951.GB47459 at 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

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> 
> 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.

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