> So, and when I display the Unix Utils Grep Help. it shows: > Turbo GREP Version 1.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 1989 Borland International > Syntax: GREP [-rlcnvidzuwo] searchstring file[s]
The grep that you are using is "Turbo GREP" and not "GNU grep". I recommend that you download and install "GNU grep" because it has many additional extensions that are not available in Turbo GREP. > So, and i try to call "grep -rHc '[[:print:]]' mydirecotry" and it shows > this answer: > Error: Invalid option -H I am not sure about the behaviour of Turbo GREP, but GNU grep automatically prints the file names if you are grepping multiple files. Try: grep -rc '[[:print:]]' mydirecotry (i.e., without -H) and see if it give the desired output, which should be file names and the number of matches. you can also try: grep -rc '[[:print:]]' mydirecotry/*.* Cheers, TAA ----------------------------------------------------- Tony Abou-Assaleh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://tony.abou-assaleh.net ----------------------[THE END]----------------------
