[Corpora-List] Re: Grep for Windows

[Chris Tribble]

Maybe I've missed something, but have you thought about using the 
commercially available Wingrep (http://www.wingrep.com/)?  I've used it for 
years and it's pretty capable. 

Best 

Chris Tribble
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D.W.Hardcastle writes: 

> 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 at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On
> Behalf Of Mark Davies
> Sent: 15 December 2006 15:00
> To: corpora at hd.uib.no
> 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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> Brigham Young University
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