searching for a string in every file in a folder

[Frederick J Newmeyer]

Dear Funknetters,

I'm looking for a program that runs on the Mac and will search for a particular string of words in every file in a particular folder. (For example, one that will give me -- with one command -- all of the occurrences of the string "I think that" in every  file in my folder "Corpora."). The Unix 'egrep' command in Terminal will do that, but rather awkwardly.

More generally, what do people think is the best corpus-processing program for the Mac out there? As many of you know, working with Corpora has not generally been my thing, so I'm pretty naive about what to do/use.

Thanks,

--fritz

Frederick J. Newmeyer
Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University
Mailing address: 1068 Seymour St.,
Vancouver, BC V6B 3M6 CANADA