OT: presence of strings and grep on other OSes

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:00:13AM -0400, Byron L. Sonne wrote:
> Not sure where else to turn, so I thought I'd ask you folks. I'm looking 
> to dig up information about how much I can rely on the presence of 
> strings and grep being present on some of the other unices out there, 
> such as AIX, HPUX, DGUX, etc. Older versions too. In some cases, egrep 
> is present and grep is not.

I know I encountered an old slackware install a few years ago where grep
didn't support -r which I found rather frustrating.  Other systems would
most likely not be using gnu grep, although sometimes you get lucky (at
least on solaris since many solaris admins hate the sun tools and prefer
the gnu tools, and they want a compiler).

I would think all unixes have grep although probably nowhere near as
featureful as gnu grep.  strings I have no idea about.

Lennart Sorensen
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