Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:59:03 -0400 From: Anthony Schneider <anthony@x-anthony.com> To: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing GNU grep revisited Message-ID: <20030624045900.GA76086@x-anthony.com> In-Reply-To: <20030623080515.S43893@thor.farley.org> References: <20030621103502.K18572@thor.farley.org> <20030622005852.GB59673@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030623114005.GB12521@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030623080515.S43893@thor.farley.org>
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--wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Interesting. I found that GNU's grep actually finds a match for "grep > -ail freebsd /usr/ports/distfiles/*": >=20 > /usr/ports/distfiles/ezm3 >=20 > ezm3 is a directory with a filename that contains FreeBSD in it. the * will expand /usr/ports/distfiles/* into full path names to each file in /usr/ports/distfiles. since this is expanded by your shell, grep will take those directory names as arguments and search directories as files as we know it to.. -Anthony. --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+99qOKUeW47UGY2kRAo76AJ9HxgzakQ4XPo4SBnXMUR2OXWjF9wCeP013 37T8L5qpM9ebNdm/zej1Ewk= =XC7I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--
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