On Jul 25, 5:23 pm, RichardL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 25, 11:39 am, Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > 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 downloadhttp://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 > > Thanks Pascal, > > The command you recommended worked perfectly, i.e. it reported back > both filenames. > > I am in the process of trying out Win-Bash because it advertises > itself as being self-contained, i.e no DLLs to worry about. Do you > think Cygwin's bash is substantially superior to Win-Bash? While I > await learning your opinion, I'll fool around with it. > -- > Richard
Win-Bash does the job exactly as I expected, as you can see below. Again, thank you very much for rescuing me from my quandary -- Richard. Start | Run win-bash [Command window opens] bash$ grep --v grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. bash$ cd K:/Temp/GnuTest bash$ grep -l -i hello *.txt HelloWorld.txt Song.txt bash$
