Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:46:57 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <20031113224657.GA66502@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031113173505.F84157@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20031113173505.F84157@zoraida.natserv.net>
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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. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey
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