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find -- search a file for lines containing a string (EXTERNAL) [v1.1]
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syntax: find <pathname> [<string>] [-L<integer>] [-w<integer>]
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[-c] [-n]
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ex: find phones frank
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find .61= -n
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find /info/addresses "John S" -L5
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'find' searches files for lines containing a specified string.
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Each matching line (each one containing the string) is displayed
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(non-printable characters appear as periods).
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pathname: Specifies what file to search. Wildcards are allowed.
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Note: 'find' is appropriate for searching (AppleWorks Word
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Processor (AWP) files as well as "plain text" files (TXT and
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SRC, for example).
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string: Specifies what to search for. If this string contains
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blanks or begins with a "-", you must put quotation marks
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around it (use either ["] or [']). (If you omit the
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string, all lines in the file will be counted as matches.)
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Uppercase and lowercase letters are considered the same.
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-c: Count the number of matching lines instead of displaying
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them. (Use -L1 to display matches *and* the count.)
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-L: Specifies the number of consecutive lines to display starting
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with each matching line. If you do not give this option, only
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the matching lines are displayed. (If -c is given, no lines
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are displayed unless you also use -L.)
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[An additional line printed after a match may itself be a
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matching line. In cases like this, 'find' continues printing
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lines until the requested number of lines have been printed
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after the last match.]
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-n: Causes line numbers to appear before every line displayed.
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The line numbers may not correspond exactly to the line
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numbers you see in AppleWorks, since 'find' ignores lines
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containing formatting commands.
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-w: Sets the wrap margin for breaking a file into lines. You will
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probably have no need for this option unless the files you are
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searching use carriage-return to mark *paragraphs* rather than
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lines (for example, most AppleWriter files).
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The wrap margin defaults to 70. You can specify your own margin
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with the -w option (your margin must be in the range 11 to 254).
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A line ends when (1) it hits the wrap margin, (2) at a carriage
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return, or (3) at a blank within 9 characters of the wrap margin
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(whichever comes first).
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[Note--find v1.0 failed to find strings at the beginning of a line.]
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