#Grep for windows windows
I subsequently discovered Cygwin-a large collection of Unix tools ported to the Windows environment.
#Grep for windows Pc
I had MKS Toolkit on my home PC but my company wasn't interested in spending that kind of money on me at work. When I changed jobs to my current employer, I found myself in a Microsoft shop I was a fish out of water. I come from a Unix background where the use of command-line tools rather than a GUI was the normal mode of operation. I strongly suggest installing Cygwin even if you have no interest in GrepWrap as it has hundreds of incredibly useful utilities running from the mundane awk program to a complete X-Windows server! And the price is right. Note: I do not include grep.exe in this article as it is freely available by installing Cygwin. However, I have looked at them and they do not meet my particular needs, although they seem to be fine utilities. In fact, until I started to write this article, I was only vaguely aware of some of these others. It has nothing to do with other programs with similar names, such as TortoisesVN grepWin or Windows Grep. Note: in the original version of this article, I was using the name GrepWin, which is the same as another tool by TortoisesVN. So my solution is GrepWrap, which is just a simple wrapper around GNU Grep. There was a match found on line 76 of MainFrm.cpp. The output has coloring and context to help identify the match. This is a recursive search in the current directory for C/C++ files, avoiding the Release and Debug directories, for the pattern ' toolbar.*color'. exclude-dir='Release' -regexp='toolbar.*color' -include="*.cpp" \ binary-files=without-match -P -recursive -i -exclude-dir='Debug' \ Grep -with-filename -line-number -C2 -devices=skip -color=always \ The above is slightly more easily read as: It just seemed that I was missing something.
#Grep for windows code
I have always found the command-line utility grep to be useful for brute-force searching of patterns in text files (especially code source!), but the number of options is daunting and when the search is finished, I always have to manually find the matching file and open it up and scroll to the correct line.
#Grep for windows archive
$response = Read-Host -Prompt "Set the archive bit on this file?" $files = Select-String -Path "d:\script\*.txt" -Pattern $pattern Here is an example that greps for a string and uses the results in a loop to determine if some action should be taken: $pattern = "tachytelic" Then you can simply pipe to Select-String like this:Ĭat "D:\Script\Lorem-Ipsum.txt" |grep "tachytelic" Loop through results from Select-String Set-Alias -Name grep -Value Select-String If you want to make it more like Unix/Linux, add an alias to the Select-String cmdlet: Get-Content "D:\Script\Lorem-Ipsum.txt" |Select-String "tachytelic" Just like grep, you can pipe to Select-String like this: Get-ChildItem -Path "D:\Script\*.txt" -Recurse | Select-String -Pattern 'tachytelic' Piping to Select-String Unlike grep, Select-String does not have the ability to search recursively, but you can pipe output to it from Get-ChildItem, like this: Select-String -Path "D:\script\*.txt" -Pattern 'Tachytelic' Grep Recursively with Get-Childitem Select-String -Path "D:\script\Lorem-Ipsum.txt" -Pattern 'Tachytelic' To grep a simple text file is as easy as: PowerShell brings the functionality of grep with the Select-String cmdlet. Unix and Linux have had the incredibly powerful grep tool for decades but windows has always been lacking.