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> Has anyone used the posix "grep" command on MPE/iX to search for a string
> in a group of MPE files?  We're stumbling on the hfs/MPE file structure
> crossover.
>
> This is potentially very handy for bulk modification projects: we'd like
> grep to identify all the occurances of variables that need to change for
> Y2K source code conversion.
>
> Please reply also if there's a straight forward way to do this using
> common MPE tools.
>
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We use the ;SEARCH option of the MPEX %PRINT command.  It is very fast
and works great.
We have set up a command file called GREP which invokes it with options
to ignore
case and leave the access/modify dates alone (;KEEPAMDATES).

Reed Ingram
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