Grep for Windows 7?

[homercles337]

Apparently MS didnt feel the need to offer a grep style search in Win7, and sadly wingrep is broken in Win7. Does anyone have any other ideas for grep in windows?

 

[MrChad]

Findstr?

 

[Nothinman]

Or "find" although it's not nearly as capable as grep. Or the grep command from unxutils?

 

[derrick2237]

I think i used this in XP before, but not 7

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

I also like installing Cygwin on my work windows computers.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Use the Select-String powershell cmdlet.

 

[Nothinman]

Use the Select-String powershell cmdlet.

Ah, if only PowerShell wasn't such a shitty shell...

 

[theevilsharpie]

Ah, if only PowerShell wasn't such a shitty shell...

It beats the NT command interpreter.

 

[Nothinman]

It beats the NT command interpreter.

Not for interactive use, not by a long shot. PowerShell isn't a terrible scripting language, but it's a horrid shell which is ironic because what Windows really needed was a good shell.

 

[theevilsharpie]

How exactly is Powershell worse for interactive use?

 

[Nothinman]

How exactly is Powershell worse for interactive use?

It's been a while since I had to use it so I don't have a specific list. I guess from a purely capability standpoint it's better, but that doesn't make it a good shell. And while being able to run normal Windows CLI apps is nice it's pretty pointless since they emit text instead of .Net objects and so can't be in the normal PS pipeline.

What MS really needs to do is fix CSRSS and their terminal emulation. Not being able to dynamically resize the terminal window in the year 2009 should be downright embarrassing for them.