RichardL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > K:\Temp\GnuTest>grep -l -i 'hello' *.txt
I know not much of MS-DOS and even less of MS-Windows, but ISTR that the * is not expanded by COMMAND.COM. grep finds no file named '*.txt' so it prints nothing, which is as documented. Try: grep -l -i hello song.txt HelloWorld.txt If that works, then download http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe install cygwin, and use bash as shell instead of COMMAND.COM. Unix shells do expand characters such as * themselves. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. -- Georges W. Bush
