Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:18:14 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Chris Readle <patterner@rocketmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <20031113231813.GA66928@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031113225534.69670.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031113224657.GA66502@wopr.caltech.edu> <20031113225534.69670.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0800, Chris Readle wrote: > You can also do this with something like: > > ls -laR | egrep *.c He's trying to search the contents of files for a string. Your suggestion searches the directory listing (and not in a very useful way, since *.c does not mean the same thing as a regular expression as it does as a wildcard, and it could also match parts of the "ls -l" output besides the filename). -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ *
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