Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:37:45 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recursion with grep? Message-ID: <20031113223611.X85161@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20031113224657.GA66502@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20031113173505.F84157@zoraida.natserv.net> <20031113224657.GA66502@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Matthew Hunt 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. I wonder how difficult this would be to fix/change. Seems strange nobody has looked into this. For someone familiar with C how long you think it would take to change? Sounds like a good small project to pay someone to look into it. :-)
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