From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 14:36:04 2003 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CF016A4CE for <questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B9243F3F for <questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:36:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hADMa3Xc004956 for <questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:36:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:37:39 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20031113173505.F84157@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Recursion with grep? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:36:04 -0000 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.