ugrep -- search for regular expressions from a dialog box

DESCRIPTION

ugrep is a graphical command combining the functionality of grep and find.

When you run the ugrep command, a dialog appears letting you specify a regular expression to search for. To specify the files to be searched, either select one of the default patterns from In Files Matching Patterns: or highlight the existing edit field and enter your own pattern. To change directories for the search, either click on Browse to invoke a browse box, or highlight the existing Starting From: edit field and enter the full path name of the proper directory.

Options

Matching Options

specifies whether the regular expression search will

display line not matching pattern. displays the lines that do not match the specified regular expression search pattern.

Match on entire lines only.

Ignore case.

Descend Directories

specifies whether ugrep always descends directories, never descends directories, or descends a user-defined number of directory levels.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0: Successful completion.
>0: An error occurred.

NOTE

ugrep is provided as a KornShell executable script with bound resources. MKS cannot be responsible for proper functionality of this code if you alter the ugrep.ksh file in any way.

PORTABILITY

Windows 2000. Windows XP. Windows Server 2003. Windows Vista. Windows 7. Windows Server 2008. Windows 8. Windows Server 2012.

AVAILABILITY

MKS Toolkit for Power Users
MKS Toolkit for System Administrators
MKS Toolkit for Developers
MKS Toolkit for Interoperability
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition

ugrep
search for regular expressions from a dialog box

Command

SYNOPSIS