Re: Does grep work in Windows

[Robert Thorpe]

On Jan 25, 8:50 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: "HS" <hug...@gmail.com>
> >> Date: 24 Jan 2007 12:51:53 -0800
>
> >> Just drop those on your c:\windows and never worry about that again...
> >> :)
> >>http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>
> > First, unxutils is a collection of very old versions of GNU software.
> > It also seems to not be maintained anymore.
>
> > And second, the directory you suggested does not need to exist on a
> > Windows system, it can have other names.Third, is it really a good idea to 
> > place other binaries in this special
> directory that is suppose to contain only the OS binaries?

It certainly isn't.  And putting "find" their will probably interfer
with MS "find" as C:\Windows occurs earlier in PATH than MS find does.
This may break some batch files.