On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:02:05 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> I throught that grep is an overly-complicated way of searching for the
> location of a string within one particular file? (I usually just use my
> text editor's "search" function.)

Does your editor support regular expressions?   Most only support a 
simple substring search.

As Warp said, you also can traverse a directory structure with grep to 
find the file(s) that have the string in them.

Jim

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