On Oct 24, Deb said: >Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had this to say, >> >> Why not use the -r option to e?grep to do recursive searches? >> >> egrep -r pattern . > >Hmmmm... Well, on Solaris 5.7, there is no -r option :-(.
Ouch. A grep variant with no recursive-feature? >Could you, by any chance, be referring to a GNU egrep? If so, I can go >check it out - I'm always up for a good util... Yeah, GNU egrep. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]