[Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

[radev at umich.edu]

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
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> Mark Davies
> Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
> Brigham Young University
> (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
> Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
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> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
> ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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Dragomir R. Radev                    Associate Professor
SI, CSE, Ling                     U. Michigan, Ann Arbor 
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