shlomo solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The subject says it all. The -R switch is recursive, but ignores > hidden directories. And grep also ignores hidden files. Is there a > way around this? I couldn't find anything about this in man grep or > on the net. In fact, aside from my personal experience, I couldn't > even find confirmation that grep does ignore hidden files and > directories.
It doesn't. The man page says "all files". Works for me. All the variants: grep -r, grep -R, grep -d recurse. Can you post the exact command line? What does not give you hidden files is shell's wildcard * - can that be your culprit? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
