* On Saturday 2005-09-03 at 20:08:42 -0500, complete wrote: > > grep -rn append_sid *.*
How about just grep -rn append_sid . where "." designates the current directory? > The output from this shows data from the > "_New CompleteTranslations.com\_phpBB2" > directory only and it seems that any > directories that follow alphabetically > are ignored. In the *.* glob, the first star matches "_New CompleteTranslations", the dot matches literally, and the second star matches "com". Is there anything else in the current directory from which the search is initiated that has a dot in its name and that contains a match (directly or recursively)? In this instance, grep is most likely doing correctly the job exactly as you specified it, without bugs or limitations.
