thanx...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Curley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:02 AM
> To: Expert mailing list
> Subject: Re: [expert] grep complexity
>
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 06:46:44AM -0700, 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
>
> I'd start with:
>
> grep -i "function" *.c
>
>
> -r gives you recursion, which you may or may not want.
>
> -f says to grep, get your search pattern from this file, not from the
> command line. Since it will eat the first expansion of *.c for the file
> name, it will try to use that file as a repository of search patterns, and
> most likely fail. So you will get no output.
>
> Try
>
> info grep
>
> It doesn't have any examples, but it is a bit clearer than the man page.
>
> ->
> -> Isn't that what this is supposed to do? Instead of getting a
> listing of
> -> files containing the text I'm searching for and what line
> number it appears
> -> on, I get pages after page after page of 'stuff', nothing of which has
> -> anything to do with what I'm searching for.
> ->
> -> Yeah, I know... RTFM... I've read, and re-read the man pages
> for grep over
> -> and over and over, and so far it has remained gobblygook...
> The one thing
> -> missing in all man pages thus far are some useful examples...
> ->
> -> SO could somebody enlighten me about this mystery that is grep?
> ->
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