NSTask & GREP problems
NSTask & GREP problems
- Subject: NSTask & GREP problems
- From: Duncan Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:04:16 +1000
Hey folks.
I'm having a go building a front-end to the unix "grep" command. I'm
using the "Moriarity" sample app as a starting point and have got the
basics working.
I am, however encountering some problems passing the wildcard
character ('*') into my grep statement.
My problem is that i want to restrict the types of files I search
within. To do this, you can execute something like the following in
terminal:
grep -cr --include='*[.txt|.rtf]' 'texttosearchfor' /path/to/search/
within/
which would restrict searching to files with the .txt and .rtf
extensions.
(note I use the "-c" flag here to force output of all files seached -
this is just for testing purposes).
If I try to do the same with NSTask, it croaks on the "--include"
bit, and it seems it's the wildcard char thats causing it. If i omit
this piece, the code runs perfectly.
I have found the following post where someone reports the same problem:
http://cocoa.mamasam.com/COCOADEV/2001/07/1/3422.php
and was wondering if anyone has managed to solve this?
(There is an app called "MacGrep" that has source available, but the
author's site no longer works)
Regards,
D.
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