On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on > 11/18/2008 > at 03:42 PM, Jim McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Is there any way to achieve the above ie to search for 'abc*xyx' where * > >can be any length in all members of a pds. > > Any of awk, grep, PDS, StarTools.
>From my testing, the port of GNU grep will work on a PDS, but the standard IBM supplied grep will not. This is with z/OS 1.8. Do you know if IBM grep will work with a PDS on later releases of z/OS? And, will IBM awk work, or will I need a port of GNU awk? Oh, how I wish that IBM would standardize on the GNU versions of the UNIX utilities instead of their own (which come from ???). -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
