RE: Grep for Windows

It's not a grep tool as such, but you can write better scripted/command
line processing of text files with Windows PowerShell (a little like
scripting with .NET) than with DOS commands, although I doubt it stands
up to Perl or Python for performance.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714674.aspx 

There is some information on regex and PowerShell here, I'm not sure
what the coverage is like, being Microsoft perhaps they have reinvented
their own syntax!
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/payette1.mspx


Regards,

Dave



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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-corpora@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-corpora@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mark Davies
Sent: 15 December 2006 15:00
To: corpora@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

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

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Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
Brigham Young University
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Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu

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