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
