--- Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:37:39PM -0500, Francisco Reyes 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. >
You can also do this with something like: ls -laR | egrep *.c chris __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
