Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> 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.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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