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From: Chris Readle <patterner@rocketmail.com>
To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>,
	Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
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Subject: Re: Recursion with grep?
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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


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