in reply to Searching many files

I'm only half kidding when I say "install a *nix box." "grep -r" is the answer to this question.

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Re: Re: Searching many files
by QM (Parson) on Feb 10, 2004 at 00:05 UTC
    If grep -r is the answer, then someone should have mentioned pgrep, which is available here, among others. The only additional point would be to make it DOS friendly with File::DosGlob.

    -QM
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