Hi Paul, Jeff, Donna Bruce, Craig, Kaae, Cory and all the Rest the Helped
:)
     Jeff got the answer and I am using it to look for the avi files ...
and pipe any found into a second grep looking for greater than 1 gig in
size.... Can you figure out what we are looking for ? and are there any on
your machines... networks... :)   >>>> insert Jaws music here <<<< hehehe

Art "being very thankful for all the help and friends! " Bahrs
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Well... Not quite,

Since the period "." in a regular expression means "any character in the
input" it has to be preceded by a slash "\".

So if within the posix shell issue the following:

grep "\.avi" *

or

grep \\.avi *

Regards
Paul Christidis



HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 01/18/2005
12:26:34 AM:

> assuming you are on a 3000
>
> Run sh.hpbin.sys
> >grep .avi *
>
> The * will search everything in your current working directory, feel
> free to use your own wildcards.  :-)
>
> -Craig
>
> Art Bahrs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All :)
> Ok... I want to look for the pattern .avi in a fairly large fileset ...
> um... 30+ files of 1-3 gigs each file... and report the lines that I
find
> and I want to use grep...
>
> Being the silly person that I am... I thot this would be relatively
> easy... hehe... so? How does I do it?
>
> Art "Don't ask why...I am validating other software hehe" Bahrs
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