From: Robin Doer <robin@robind.de>
To: n mishra <mishra_nn@rediffmail.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Search tool
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:50:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302280950.07497.robin@robind.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030227190533.9852.qmail@webmail17.rediffmail.com>
> I am trying to write a program in c to be able to search a file
> for any pattern which will be given by the user at
> runtime.Basically a search tool.
> Could someone suggest a good way of doing this.I've heard of lex
> and yacc and also awk.Which one is better or is there any other
> option.
Indeed.
Some days ago there was a discussion in the ML "File name with spaces" - go
through a filesystem and make something. You can use use this as input.
> Or is there any way i can use something like grep through a 'c'
> program.
Check the manpages of opendir, readdir... and regex
Good look,
Robin
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2003-02-27 19:05 (unknown) n mishra
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