Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:55:34 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Readle <patterner@rocketmail.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <20031113225534.69670.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031113224657.GA66502@wopr.caltech.edu>
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--- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:37:39PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > 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. > > When using "-r", the arguments to grep should be directories. It will > process all of the files in the given directories, recursively. There > is > no provision for searching a subset of the files (i.e. "*.c). If you > need to do that, use find and xargs. > You can also do this with something like: ls -laR | egrep *.c chris __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
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