Next-Generation GREP Tool to Work More Like a Search Engine

14 October 2001, 17:37 GMT

GREP - that insanely useful tool for doing precise text search & replace operations on multiple files and directories - is about to enter the Internet age.

The CLING (Command-Line Internet is Not Grep) project is being run by an Internet Search Engine fanboy, spotty sixteen year old Billy Drake.

Drake enthuses about his new project: "This new tool will be seen by everyone as being much, much more useful than the old GREP. Say for example that you have a folder on your PC containing ten files. You CLING them for some text such as 'robohelp sucks'. Now say that text only appears once in all of the files. However, CLING will still return at least ten million possibilities. In my mind, that makes it at least TEN MILLION TIMES more useful than the old GREP!"

Microsoft is reportedly interested in licensing the revolutionary CLING technology for their successor to Windows XP, Windows RUP.

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