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re: Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?

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Of course, nobody wonders why find was written (for Windows) in the first place, since grep dates to 1973, almost 10 years earlier, and is vastly superior.  And, yes, the source was available.

[FIND was written for Windows in order to be compatible with MS-DOS. -Raymond]

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