Re: Grep for Windows

If you don't find any good program, maybe writing a perl-script that 
emulates grep would be an option?
Even though the regex syntax would be slightly different...

Michaela Atterer

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Dragomir R. Radev wrote:

> Have you considered using cygwin (a unix shell lookalike) which runs
> under Windows and which has grep?
>
> > This next semester, I'd like to have the students in my Corpus
> > Linguistics class learn to use Grep tools for searching large corpora. I
> > know there's many great, fast Unix tools, but these students will be
> > using Windows machines. If possible, the program would have the
> > following features:
> >
> > -- Fast, since they'll be working with fairly large corpora (100 million
> > words and more)
> > -- Obviously, full regular expressions capability
> > -- Not run under Cygwin or a similar program, but rather as a native
> > Windows app
> >
> > I've already looked at PowerGrep, V-Grep, and TextPad, but none of these
> > are adequate. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Mark Davies
> >
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > Mark Davies
> > Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
> > Brigham Young University
> > (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
> > Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
> >
> > ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
> > ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
> > ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
>
> --
> Dragomir R. Radev                    Associate Professor
> SI, CSE, Ling                     U. Michigan, Ann Arbor
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev         radev@xxxxxxxxx