/nIn , Char Jackson
wrote:

So, once in a while, I have to actually run a search by hand! Yuck.
Try this. It's not fun!
dir c:\* /s/a/l/on/b c:\temp\mysearch.txt

Too bad Windows doesn't have a native grep.

It does. Only a Windows expert will be able to use it.

That's what I meant by "native" (in that it's not that Windows "shell"
stuff).

For example, we all used Cygwin years ago, but most of us (at least I did),
simply gave up when we went from machine to machine.

Literally, it's easier to just install VirtualBox and Ubuntu, and then use
a "real" grep on the file, since you can share files across the
virtualization.

So, I grep on Windows using a "native" grep on the Ubuntu virtual machine.