On Friday 24 January 2003 13:22, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > 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? grep -R kukureeku *
You're right. I changed the "*" in the command to "." and now it works. Thanks. -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.0.3) on LINUX Mandrake 9.0 ================================================================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]
