On 8/7/2012 5:08 PM, AngusC wrote:
If I use the command: grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.* I get results back as expected But if the file pattern is like this: grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this pattern with .log file extension). Am I doing something wrong?
in the second case the "-r" is looking for *.log file or directories and I guess the directory does not match. Try find . -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \; Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple