Of course it did: Powershell. A fully object oriented, typed, .NET based CLI. Kicks the crap out of bash.... It came out around the same time as Vista. It'll be included by default in the next version of windows.
I've found most of the unix utils have been ported to the PC (even xargs) and are free. I'd be happy to send them to anyone who needs 'em. It's nice to be able to do find . -name "*.sql" -print | args grep -l "CREATE TABLE" on a winders box .... I hope Bill Gates gets heartburn when it happens .. .LOL
I like working with WinGrep too, but when I ACTUALLY tried to pay for it things went bad. My $30 is gone and no registration key. They guy won't even respond to emails. PayPal won't give my money back either. Shameful.
There is a new .NET based open source GREP tool for windows called dnGREP: <a class="user" href="http://code.google.com/p/dngrep/">http://code.google.com/p/dngrep/</a>It provides shell integration (ability to search from explorer), plain text/regex search, undo functionality, and optional integration with text editor (like notepad++).
I agree totally, just started a job where I quickly needed to search web files for patterns and WinGrep was great (although anything would be better than the crummy windows search).However, Wingrep lacks the real power of the UNIX version , namely the lack of command line switches and pipelining commands.
jordan314Jul 11, 2007
Hey, that's actually really useful. Thanks!
Closed AccountJul 11, 2007
Bleah, PowerGrep is a million times better ( <a class="user" href="http://www.powergrep.com/">http://www.powergrep.com/</a> ).It's companion RegexBuddy is cool too ( <a class="user" href="http://www.regexbuddy.com/">http://www.regexbuddy.com/</a> ).
miothegreatJul 12, 2007
Of course it did: Powershell. A fully object oriented, typed, .NET based CLI. Kicks the crap out of bash.... It came out around the same time as Vista. It'll be included by default in the next version of windows.
bisqwitJul 12, 2007
"Enterprise" in the title bar of the program. Marketing / hype overload alert.No digg.
zibbygJul 22, 2007
Textcrawler is a newish program that does regex search and replace in windows. its freeware, and has a nice ripper which can pull all found strings to a separate window.<a class="user" href="http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/textcrawler.html">http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/textcrawler.html</a>
danfaceAug 28, 2007
I've found most of the unix utils have been ported to the PC (even xargs) and are free. I'd be happy to send them to anyone who needs 'em. It's nice to be able to do find . -name "*.sql" -print | args grep -l "CREATE TABLE" on a winders box .... I hope Bill Gates gets heartburn when it happens .. .LOL
spambamflimflamSep 17, 2008
I like working with WinGrep too, but when I ACTUALLY tried to pay for it things went bad. My $30 is gone and no registration key. They guy won't even respond to emails. PayPal won't give my money back either. Shameful.
stankovskiNov 24, 2008
There is a new .NET based open source GREP tool for windows called dnGREP: <a class="user" href="http://code.google.com/p/dngrep/">http://code.google.com/p/dngrep/</a>It provides shell integration (ability to search from explorer), plain text/regex search, undo functionality, and optional integration with text editor (like notepad++).
artabonJan 9, 2009
Its shareware not freeware.
raytortorApr 20, 2009
I agree totally, just started a job where I quickly needed to search web files for patterns and WinGrep was great (although anything would be better than the crummy windows search).However, Wingrep lacks the real power of the UNIX version , namely the lack of command line switches and pipelining commands.