On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:37:39PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > The man page for grep says to use "-r" to recurse, yet when I try > something like > > grep -r -li string *.c > > I get no files. However, if I go into one of the subdirectories and do a > plain grep <string> *.c then <string> is found on several files.
When using "-r", the arguments to grep should be directories. It will process all of the files in the given directories, recursively. There is no provision for searching a subset of the files (i.e. "*.c). If you need to do that, use find and xargs. -- Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"