{"id":121,"date":"2004-09-28T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2004\/09\/28\/improve-your-windows-search-with-perl\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T14:59:35","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T13:59:35","slug":"improve-your-windows-search-with-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/improve-your-windows-search-with-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve your Windows search with Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I have difficulties to live without are regular expressions, particularly when it comes to searching \/ replacing files, in files, in scripts, in Excel spreadsheets, in directories, in whatever you can search in. Text editors using regular expressions, on Windows, are common (I&#39;d recommend UltraEdit), but looking for files with regexp is another story.<\/p>\n<p>On my main computer, running Windozh, I have installed the win32 port of most linux utils, aka Cygwin. So I have a Bash shell, like on my Linux server, and my searches are powered by &#39;find&#39; and &#39;grep&#39;, which is great. This is plan A.<\/p>\n<p>But for those who may find installing and using Cygwin too heavy, plan B, I just found something interesting : a perl script and a .reg hack to add Perl powers to your Windows searches. Looking for something has never been that easy :)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.iamcal.com\/pl\/find\/\">Windows search with Perl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/\">Cygwin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultraedit.com\/\">UltraEdit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A .reg hack to add Perl power into your Windows searches !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2,9,76,4],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-code","tag-perl","tag-tips","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}