On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 14Jun2013 20:12, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > | [...] PowerShell has been > | available as a download on WinXP and standard on Win7 [PS 3 is a > | download for Win7, stock on real Win8]. > | While I'm not fluent in it, there are some commands I've gotten > | rather engrained... > | > | get-childitem -recurse -filter "*.ad*" | select-string -pattern "with" > | > | finds all the Ada (GNAT convention .ads/.adb) files containing "with" > | statements. And pattern probably is a regex so I could fine tune it to > | just the package withs by using a start of line marker... > > Hmm. > > find . -name '*.ad*' | xargs grep with > > on almost any UNIX system. There's any number of variations on that > depending on exactly what you want. I'm not going to get sucked > into a UNIX/Windows bickerfest here, but your PowerShell example > isn't winning me over. Sound like they reinvented the wheel. Again, > years later:-(
As I understand it, PowerShell is intended primarily for automation and scripting, not for interactive console use. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list