Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:46:19 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <87ptfv33kk.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20031113223951.X85161@zoraida.natserv.net> (Francisco J. Reyes's message of "Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:42:18 -0500 (EST)") References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311131524240.1234-100000@java2.dpcsys.com> <20031113183118.T3617@d66-183-123-52.bchsia.telus.net> <20031113223951.X85161@zoraida.natserv.net>
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At 2003-11-14T03:42:18Z, Francisco J Reyes <fran@natserv.net> writes:
> I think I am going to research what would it take for someone to fix grep
> and pay them.
Grep works perfectly in that respect, thanks - it's your understanding
that's a bit askew. Say you're in a directory with 'file1.c', 'file2.c',
'file3.c', etc. When you type:
grep -r 'string' *.c
your shell (*not* grep!) is expanding your command line to:
grep -r 'string' file1.c file2.c file3.c
Now, grep's man page says this:
-r, --recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is equiv-
alent to the -d recurse option.
None of the arguments you specified at the command line are directories -
they're all files. What would you say is the proper behavior for recursing
into a file?
grep did exactly what you asked it to; your request was not what you thought
it was, but grep had no way of knowing.
> How do think we would want grep to work?
>
> Do we want something like:
> grep -r <string> *.c
No. We want to learn the proper usage of our tools. Take a look at the
"find | grep" examples elsewhere in the thread.
--
Kirk Strauser
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