Oops, my bad. I forgot about xargs. No wonder I couldn't get it to work. Glad I asked anyway. I learned a some useful stuff, especially "grep -r".
thanks! km4hr wrote: > > 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. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-doesn%27t-%22find-.%7Cgrep-aword%22-work--tp24359078p24360027.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.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
