Re: Grep for Windows

Mark's original comment and Dragomir's response suggests that the
cygwin tools can only be used with the cygwin shell, which isn't true.
ALL the cygwin tools I know of run just fine as windows apps.  (They
use a common dll which does all the magic...)

    Mitch Marcus



On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:01:24AM -0500, 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              
>