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Beginner Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Finland

I'm using 'GREP for Windows' to grab text lines from files:
http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/grep20d_win.zip

I use this alias, e.g. 'gre log1.txt tells you'
#al gre {#launch {command.com /C grep ~"%-2~" ~"c:zmudlogs%1~" > ~"c:zmudgre_gra.txt~"}}

... So the result of the grep is written into the gre_gra.txt.

I use zMUD 6.37 and 5.55 in my Win98 and this alias works in both of them, however, when I use W2K this alias refuses to work.

How do I get it working in W2K?

Lyriikka the GenTnLadyLover
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GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

Instead of command.com, try cmd.exe on your 2000 system.

- Charbal

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Using the command.com call syntax is not necessary for this application. The /C syntax was created to allow program to call out to the functions built into to the dos shell command language. One of those functions was running batch files and that is where the syntax was most commonly used.

The #LAUNCH command in zMud will run any executable program without the extra steps you are currently employing.

Beginner Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Finland

Yea, seems to work without it.

But grep.exe still wont work proprely.

#launch {grep ~"%-2~" ~"c:zmudlogs%1~" > ~"c:zmudgre_gra.txt~"}

I think the redirection mark > its the one that makes it bug. But I don't know how to make it work, can anyone help?

Lyriikka the GenTnLadyLover
batmud.bat.org:23