Hi, I'm trying to use the gnv package under VMS, but this command grep int *.c gives me this error: *.c: invalid wildcard operation Can anybody see what the problem is? Thanks in advance.

Which GNV version , which grep version (show "grep --help"). On my system it happily accepts wildcards. I have the impression You are using grep from DCL, not in the GNV bash shell: grep does not handle wildcards, the shell (bash) does it. Joseph Huber, http://www.huber-joseph.de ITRC

If You want a grep working with wildcards from DCL (i.e. expanding the wildcard filespec itself), then there is a rather old VMS implementation of grep 2.0 from Hunter Goatley at http://vms.process.com/scripts/file... as well as fgrep. Otherwise to use GNVs grep, define a symbol like grep == "bash -c ""grep" if you have a "bash" command or have gnu:[bin] in Your dcl$path. Joseph Huber, http://www.huber-joseph.de ITRC

Thanks a lot, folks. I was indeed trying to use grep in DCL shell.