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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
>>> Heck, even just finding
>>> a file with a certain string is so damn hard in Windows, not to talk about
>>> anything more advanced than that.
>
>> Vista actually does this quite nicely. Or in stall Agent Ransack.
>
> I suppose it supports extended regular expressions?
You said "a certain string". No, I don't think Vista does this natively.
For that, try Agent Ransack, which is quite nice and free. (I made the
perhaps mistaken assumption you were complaining about something that was
actually a problem for you. :-)
Or, you know, install the free tools.
> (Of course searching files is just one of the many things one might need
> to do in a semi-regular basis. Searching and replacing a regular expression
> on a bunch of files with a certain name patter in a directory structure is
> not even a far-fetched thing to do. Or the myriad of other things which are
> handy to do on a unix command line.)
Sure. UNIX definitely comes with a lot of text manipulation tools that
Windows doesn't. On the other hand, lots of Windows files aren't text, and
Windows has better tools than UNIX for manipulating structured files.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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