[VEGAN]

I'd like to search a file at command line, but I'm not sure how this would work.

I have an GUI app "WorkLookup" that uses "edict" for Japanese-English dictionary. It's fantastic... but not perfect. In other words, I need a better searching method.

The dictionary can be opened in TextEdit [encoding "Japanese EUC"], but that is not exactly what I want. I'd like to do a something like

cat edict | grep "KANJI"

I could search the whole file for a specific kanji sign in TextEdit hitting COMMAND-G but that's not the best solution.

I know that Terminal.app HAS Japanese support [to some extent] `ls -v' shows file/directory names in Japanese.
However, how could I `grep' in Japanese? I've never tried this.

Any thoughts?


EDITED:

Never mind
I figured it out

It looked at first that it wouldn't work, but then if I tried it anyway, it was just fine!
I set the Terminal encoding to Japanese EUC; if I now tried to type the grep search pattern it showed up as "??" and that made me worried and I thought something was wrong. But actually, it works

[Camelot]

FWIW, you never have to cat a file and pipe it into grep. grep will accept a filename as a parameter.

cat filename |grep somestring

is the same as:

grep somestring filename

without the overhead of cat and pipes.
As you'd expect, filename can be wildcarded to search a number of files in one hit.

[VEGAN]

Originally posted by Camelot:
FWIW, you never have to cat a file and pipe it into grep. grep will accept a filename as a parameter.

cat filename |grep somestring

is the same as:

grep somestring filename

without the overhead of cat and pipes.
As you'd expect, filename can be wildcarded to search a number of files in one hit.

But as I made it into an "alias" and I didn't know how to make an alias so that it would get the "somestring"... it was easier for me to `cat' it first. And there is not a BIG overhead from it I guess... it's not like I'm using 100% of my computer's CPU all the time...

But if you know how to make and alias that will do what I'm looking for, let me know, please!

[Rainy Day]

I'm not sure about an alias, but it could be done with a shell function. In BASH, it would look like this:

  function foo { grep "$*" filename; }

You would use it just like you would an alias:

  foo somestring

Would be equivalent to:

  grep "somestring" filename

[Xeo]

Originally posted by VEGAN:
But as I made it into an "alias" and I didn't know how to make an alias so that it would get the "somestring"... it was easier for me to `cat' it first. And there is not a BIG overhead from it I guess... it's not like I'm using 100% of my computer's CPU all the time...

But if you know how to make and alias that will do what I'm looking for, let me know, please!

alias foo "grep \!* filename"

would make:

foo string

the same as:

grep string filename

[VEGAN]

Originally posted by Xeo:
alias foo "grep \!* filename"

would make:

foo string

the same as:

grep string filename

Thanks