Well, almost.

May be old news to a lot of people, but I found out the FINDSTR utility which is installed standard on Win XP machines (probably Win 2k3 as well) has enough options to be a decent replacement to grep in the common cases. Even makes it easier for some things – for example use /S for a recursive search instead of having to build it with find.

For myself I still prefer using grep/find instead (on cygwin)… but will be useful when working on other boxes.