hey there - I am by no means a regular expressions guru, but I showed your question to someone who is at least more guru-ish than I and his thoughts were:
1 - are you sure you are starting in the right directory? 2- using fgrep would give you current directory and everything beneath it 3- your current syntax says you are looking for instances of "cfc.ces.dbdata" -- if you are in fact trying to get all instances of cfc or ces or dbdata then you should put a forward slash in front of each back slash. I hope some of that is useful Dana >Okay, from everything I've read, I should be able to restrict a grep >to a certain file type. Here's what I'm trying to do: > >list all file names that contain the following string "cfc.ces.dbdata" >regardless of case, and search recursiving beginning with the existing >directory and write it to a file called dbdata.txt. > >> grep -l -i -r "cfc\.ces\.dbdata" *.cfm > dbdata.txt > >but, it just tells me that *.cfm doesn't exist. What am I doing wrong? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:210979 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
