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> Subject: Re: [expert] grep complexity
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:44:37 -0400
> From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: "Expert@Mandrake"@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com
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> I think that your biggest problem is not with the complexity of grep,
> but with the way that the Unix command line (shells) work. The *
> "globs" get expanded by the shell before the command ever sees them.
> This is one of the greatest stregths and weaknesses of the Unix shell as
> opposed to, say, the DOS CLI.
>
> 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
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Joseph (Joe) Sheble
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