Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:21:27 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep weirdness Message-ID: <20030808011905.O9028@pemaquid.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <20030807221210.F76742-100000@ren.sasknow.com> References: <20030807221210.F76742-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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Thank you, this was exactly correct. I never made the shell connection. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Ryan Thompson wrote: > doug@safeport.com wrote to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org: > > > On some of my hosts trying doing a recursive search gets a syntax > > error. On most it works. As all these systems are built from the same > > source tree, I am not sure where to look for the problem. > > > > artemis:~> grep -ilr taiwan * \ > > grep: unrecognized option `--showDropTarget' |____ does not work > > Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... | > > Try `grep --help' for more information. / > > > > while > > > Hmm... My guess is that * expands to something containing a leading > hyphen, most likely called --showDropTarget :-) The * is expanded by the > shell, not grep(1). > > Try "grep -ilr taiwan ." instead. > _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601
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