in reply to grep for windows

Since you were looking for something equivalent to grep, perhaps you'd be interested in ack.

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Re^2: grep for windows
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2016 at 06:34 UTC

    Few weeks ago I could not install ack 2, for the same purpose as OP, due to problem with Find::Next. Other details are there.

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      Few weeks ago I could not install ack 2, for the same purpose as OP, due to problem with Find::Next. Other details are there.

      When a test fails because it couldn't create a temp file in a non existent temp directory ... force install it

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        Hmm ... ok.

        For File::Temp v0.2304, all tests pass. (It's possible I might have encountered the problem if I had tried to build perl myself.) In t/from_file.t, of F::Next, use of F::Temp seems simple enough ... 

        FROM_OK_FILE_BUT_MISSING: {
    my $warn_called;
    local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { $warn_called = 1 };
 
    my $tempfile = File::Temp->new;
    File::Copy::copy('t/filelist.txt', $tempfile);
    print {$tempfile} "t/non-existent-file.txt\n";
    $tempfile->close;
    ...
}

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        ... nothing odd is there about File::Temp->new().

        Oh, odd thing is of course use of MS Windows. I suppose. :-| (I wonder if newer versions for F::{Next,Temp} would make any difference.)

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