The OpenVMS User's Guide, Second Edition
A broad introductory overview of OpenVMS that focuses on command procedures, text editing and system utilities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS The OpenVMS User's Guide, Second Edition
Chapter 6: More Work with Files
The brain is, in fact, an associating machine. To recall a name, date, or fact, what the brain needs is a cue, a clue.
Robert L. Montgomery, Memory Made Easy, 1979
Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
Overview
Chapter 2, "A Beginner's Guide to OpenVMS File Management," introduced you to some basics of file handling with OpenVMS. This chapter extends your understanding of working with files. In this chapter, you will
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Learn how to search files
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Explore uses of the Sort and Merge utilities
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Explore another way to create files
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Begin using logical names
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Learn how to print files
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Learn how to set up local help libraries
6.1 Searching Files
The SEARCH command scans one or more files for a specified string or strings and lists all occurrences of the lines containing the string or strings. This command is useful in constructing special-purpose glossaries, for example. Even though a text may have a mixture of ideas, you can cull from it all lines pertaining to a selected set of keywords.
The SEARCH command has the following syntax:
<b class="bold">search</b> <span class="emphasis"><ifilespec</i></span>[, ] <span class="emphasis"><isearch-string</i></span>[, ]
The file specification is the name of at least one file that should be searched. If more than one file should be searched, list the names, separating them with commas. You may include wildcard characters in the file specification.
The search string is the string of characters to be...
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