km4hr wrote on Monday, July 06, 2009 12:13 PM: > Do pipes work in cygwin in the usual way? > > Why doesn't the following command works on HP Unix? Why not cygwin? > > find .|grep "hello" > > I get no output from this command even though I'm sure the word "hello" is > in some files. > > What I want this command to do is find all files in all sub-directories and > pipe the output to grep. Grep then looks in each file for the word "hello". > The names of files that contain the word "hello" should be returned. > > thanks.
Your command has grep search the list of files for "hello", not the contents of those files. Try this: find . | xargs grep "hello" This is not a Cygwin-specific question, BTW. HTH, -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- 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
