Larry,

As pointed out already the wildcard expansion into real filenames is
performed by the  shell, not by grep itself. However, you can still run a
caseless string search against a set of files from the CI prompt by using
the following command file. I also show a search of a group of COBOL source
files for the HPCICOMMAND intrinsic.

:help search
USER DEFINED COMMAND FILE:  SEARCH.CMD.SYS

parm SrchString,SrchFiles
purge shellin,temp >$null
echo grep -i '!SrchString' !SrchFiles     >shellin
echo exit                                >>shellin
xeq sh.hpbin.sys    <shellin


:search hpcicommand,*
COMMAND:029000     CALL INTRINSIC "HPCICOMMAND" USING LK-COMMAND, LK-ERR,
DCOMMAND:029000     CALL INTRINSIC "HPCICOMMAND" USING LK-COMMAND, LK-ERR,
TAPELDVS:015350     CALL INTRINSIC "HPCICOMMAND" USING WS-COMMAND,
ERR-RETURN,
HPCICMD:003000 PROGRAM-ID. "\HPCICOMMAND".

Doug.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Simonsen, Larry <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 11:27 AM
Subject: grep


> Is there a way of running grep without going into the Unix shell.  Wish to
> run it from a Qedit prompt.
>
> Here is a sample of what I am trying.
> grep '-i "glfisctoindex" ../SRCLIST/*'
>
> GREP.HPBIN.SYS: input file "../SRCLIST/*": No such file or directory
> S/b
> grep '-i "glfisctoindex" ../SRCLIST/*'
>                                     @
> grep '-i "glfisctoindex" ../SRCLIST/@'
>
> GREP.HPBIN.SYS: input file "../SRCLIST/@": No such file or directory
> S/b
> grep '-i "glfisctoindex" ../SRCLIST/@'
>                          @.srclist
> grep '-i "glfisctoindex" @.srclist   '
>
> GREP.HPBIN.SYS: input file "@.srclist": No such file or directory
>
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