thanx... that did indeed work...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suppiluliuma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] grep complexity
>
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joe Sheble wrote:
> > Could grep be any more difficult to figure out? I'll admit I'm new to
> > Linux, but so far everything I've set out to do (set up a server, set up
> > sendmail, set up Apache, set up PHP, etc...) I have accomplished fairly
> > easy. Except for grep... All I want to do is search all the *.c file
> > recursively starting from a specific directory for a specific string...
> >
> > grep -r -e "function something" -f *.c
>
> '-f' is your problem. This line should be:
>
> grep -r -e "function something" *.c
>
> > Isn't that what this is supposed to do?
>
> With -f grep takes file you specified ( in this case first file in
> current directory with .c extension) as file containing patterns to
> match and remaining files with .c extension as files to grep, so the
> result must be pretty confusing.
>
> Regards
>
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