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Tony Hoyle wrote: > grep is probably part of cygwin... the ls command does need some kind > of filter it's just the regexp stuff that could be tricky. > Feel free to encorporate "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions" http://www.pcre.org/ with a precompiled version for Win32 here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ Note that the GnuWin32 people have also ported lots of useful unixy programs as native Win32 executables, include grep (though you are right, I mostly use Cygwin these days). John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747