dgrep is a utility that will search for a string or pattern in all text files in a directory tree. If you have dgrep, there is no need to repetitively change directories and run the same Unix commands over and over to find the information you are looking for. dgrep was created since the standard Unix find and grep commands do not provide some critical features.

• Dgrep is a Perl script that implements basic versions of the Unix find and grep commands
• The search pattern can be a single word, a string, or a regular expression
• Dgrep will search all local text files in the given directory and any subdirectories.
• By default it will report the name and location of the files where the pattern was found and display the lines in the files where a match was found.
• Options include only to display the file name where one or more matches were found or to count the number of matches in each file.

dgrep was written by John Koob, a member of the Porta-Amp team. You are welcome to email any questions, comments, or suggestions to the author.

Testing and suggestions were provided by the rest of the Porta-Amp team: Kevin Mlazgar, Dan Leder, Danny Islam, and Edmund Fung.

The design, implementation and documentation of dgrep was created by the author with no resources other than the Camel book:

Wall, Christiansen, Schwartz, Programming Perl, Second Edition, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996.