FWPers, Pretending your machine did not have e?grep, how concisely could you duplicate the GNUish "-q" (silent) functionality: stop scanning on first match and exit(0). If no match, exit(1).
Here's something simple to start with: perl -n0777 exit !(/pattern/) Necessary Improvements: - concisely get the pattern from the command-line (e.g., pattern as $ARGV[0] and the file as $ARGV[1]) such that the syntax is more like grep (e.g., grep 'pattern' filename => perl -args 'pattern' filename)? Extra Credit: - is there a short way to do it without slurping the whole file? Any takers? Scott -- Scott Wiersdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
