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Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?
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Mathias Dahl |
Subject: |
Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out? |
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Sat, 2 Oct 2010 22:40:15 +0200 |
If Windows' built-in find command supports UTF-16, then that might be
an option (maybe better since I think find will be installed on more
Windows PCs) too:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/find.mspx?mfr=true
It sounds like it does at least parts of what grep does. Try it out and see.
/Mathias
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:05:18 +0200
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>>
>>> > Based on your advice I just took the trouble to install powershell. I
>>> > can not see that it addresses the problem with utf-16, but maybe I am
>>> > missing something. Can you please tell me how to search also utf-16
>>> > files with it?
>>>
>>> That's just an idea i sent, i personally don't use (or really few
>>> sometimes on other machines) windows systems and i have just a basic
>>> knowledge of all that is related to it and microsoft in general (e.g
>>> Powershell).
>>> So i can't help you much here.
>>> Anyway, Eli seem to have tried it and is not convinced.
>>
>> Looks like the PowerShell cmdlet that's supposed to be equivalent of
>> Grep is Select-String.
>
> Yes, thanks. And that actually works with utf-16.
>
> So now we have a strange situation.
>
>
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, (continued)
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/01
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?,
Mathias Dahl <=
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, David Robinow, 2010/10/02
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/03
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, David Robinow, 2010/10/03
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/03
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/03
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/10/03
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/03
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/03
- Re: What does Emacs on w32 know that grep can't figure out?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/03