Re: Grepping lines.

de Sherpa 01/31/2008 09:16

John Fitzsimons wrote:
> Okay, I have the following list. It is NOT a file. I want to list all
> the words that contain "i" in. I want to use a windows program.
> Not DOS, not Unix, etc. What would do that please ?
>
> paxton
> pinite
> taipei
> tiepin
> atone
> axone
> epona
> inapt
> inept
> ionia
> oaten
> panto
> patio
> paton
>
> P.S. Most grepping programs are not windows and/or require input from
> a file, not a paste selection. :-(
>
> I feel that this should be able to be done in a text editor but which
> one ? Notetab would work but I don't want to create/use a script if I
> can avoid it.
>
>
> Regards, John.

So I guess you also want the program to output the result to the clipboard?

windows find will do it, but not from the clipboard, eg

> echo helloi | find "i"
helloi

for help on find

find /?