despite what the shell leads you to believe...grep will only process *one file at a time*. in the shell, when you pass ./foo* to grep, it's actually the shell that's creating the loop for you.
what does work for mpe is this:
:grep.hpbin.sys "'!search_string'" < !_g_file_name
where (of course) the variables search_string and _g_file_name have something in them and (most importantly) _g_file_name is a single file. _g_file_name does *not* have to be expressed in hfs format because grep is being run from the ci (rather than the shell).
to create the same illusion of having grep search thru [log in to unmask], you need to do one of two things...
1. run sh.hpbin.sys "-c 'grep....'" (as someone has already suggested) --or--
2, write a script (which you'd probably do for option 1 anyhow...) but in this case, the script is going to do a few other nice things for you.
grep (being the village savant that it is) can search regular files just fine....but don't try to hand it something like a 'msg' or binary file -- it will muddify it's little mind! :-)
the script i use (y'all *knew this was coming, yes? :-) has all sorts of checks in it so you can say pass something like @.source, and it will gracefully skip files that grep can't handle.
if you'd like a copy, please let me know. - d
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----- Original Message ----
From: Ray Shahan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:03:29 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] Got 'dem ole POXIS blues again, mamma
Hi all,
I'm trying to write a little script to do some searches on
ASCII files. I can get the script to work with a direct file name, but
not with wildcarding...am I doing something wrong, or just SOL?
This does not work:
:xeq grep.hpbin.sys '-lin "COMMERCIAL;" /PTC/ASCII/*'
GREP.HPBIN.SYS: input file "/PTC/ASCII/*": No such file or directory
This doesn't work either:
:xeq grep.hpbin.sys '-lin "COMMERCIAL;" /PTC/ASCII/@'
GREP.HPBIN.SYS: input file "/PTC/ASCII/@": No such file or directory
But this does:
:xeq grep.hpbin.sys '-lin "COMMERCIAL;" /PTC/ASCII/CPROG'
/PTC/ASCII/CPROG
TIA!
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