Boolean searches of file content.

[Chris Young]

I've just gotten Mac OS 10.2, and I'm amazed at how much search capability I
suddenly have with all the Unix BSD commands available for searching files,
etc. It's been 10 years or so since I dealt with Unix, though, and I'm
trying to figure out the best way to search for "and"
combinations of words in my files.  The "Find" window in the Finder matches
to easily -- if _any_ of the words occur.

Say I want to find only those files that have _both_ "apple" and
"orange" in them.  The command

    egrep 'apple|orange' {directory}

finds either one. Is there a way to do this with egrep? Or is something
like "perl" or "sed" better?  I want to end up with a list of files and,
if possible, the lines and line numbers where matches were found.

What would be great is some way of being able to specify how close the
words were and other details.

Thanks very much for any help.

-- Chris Young c1572young at earthlink.net



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