On Friday 26 March 2004 8:44 pm, Craig Daters wrote: > >Craig Daters wrote: > >> Let me preface this by stating that I am a newbie with using the > >> commands below, I have only ever used grep to locate simple things, I > >> have not used any of the others... > >> > >> So how come when I enter the commands below, I get an error that > >> says: "grep: unknown directories method"? > > > >I don't know. Please read `man grep` to find out. > > > Been there, done that. The man page offers no clues...
I suspect you made a typo. The grep part of the command is very short and very simple. The rest is just pipes to other short, simple commands. My money is on making some error with the backslash line continuations... Regards, Antony. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users