Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:37:39 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <20031113173505.F84157@zoraida.natserv.net>
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The man page for grep says to use "-r" to recurse, yet when I try something like grep -r -li string *.c I get no files. However, if I go into one of the subdirectories and do a plain grep <string> *.c then <string> is found on several files.
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