Question about version of GREP

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:24 PM 7/30/2001, Frazer, Ryan wrote:
>I just downloaded Cygwin last week and I love it.  I'm mainly a Windows person, but would like to be able to use Unix/Linux more, its just my job is mostly Windows.  So, I won't go into the assistance I need installing Red Hat Linux that I bought probably close to 2 years ago.
>
>What I will ask, however, is can I update the version of GREP that came with Cygwin?  I'd like to be able to use GREP to looking into subdirecties as well.  I saw a GREP v2.0 that had added this functionality.  I found it at http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/grep.html .


I did:

 >grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2

Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Seems like you have what you want already.


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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