[Corpora-List] Re: Grep for Windows

From: Chris Tribble (ctribble@clara.co.uk)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2006 - 03:37:52 MET

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    Maybe I've missed something, but have you thought about using the
    commercially available Wingrep (http://www.wingrep.com/)? I've used it for
    years and it's pretty capable.

    Best

    Chris Tribble
    www.ctribble.co.uk

     

    D.W.Hardcastle writes:

    > It's not a grep tool as such, but you can write better scripted/command
    > line processing of text files with Windows PowerShell (a little like
    > scripting with .NET) than with DOS commands, although I doubt it stands
    > up to Perl or Python for performance.
    > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714674.aspx
    >
    > There is some information on regex and PowerShell here, I'm not sure
    > what the coverage is like, being Microsoft perhaps they have reinvented
    > their own syntax!
    > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/payette1.mspx
    >
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Dave
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > David Hardcastle
    > Research Programmer, Natural Language Generation Group
    > Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, room 121, North Spur
    > The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
    > +44 (0) 1908 659947
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On
    > Behalf Of Mark Davies
    > Sent: 15 December 2006 15:00
    > To: corpora@hd.uib.no
    > Subject: [Corpora-List] Grep for Windows
    >
    > This next semester, I'd like to have the students in my Corpus
    > Linguistics class learn to use Grep tools for searching large corpora. I
    > know there's many great, fast Unix tools, but these students will be
    > using Windows machines. If possible, the program would have the
    > following features:
    >
    > -- Fast, since they'll be working with fairly large corpora (100 million
    > words and more)
    > -- Obviously, full regular expressions capability
    > -- Not run under Cygwin or a similar program, but rather as a native
    > Windows app
    >
    > I've already looked at PowerGrep, V-Grep, and TextPad, but none of these
    > are adequate. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
    >
    > Mark Davies
    >
    > ============================================
    > Mark Davies
    > Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
    > Brigham Young University
    > (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
    > Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
    >
    > ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
    > ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
    > ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
    > ============================================
    >
    >
    >
     

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