problem using recursive grep (-r option)
Gary Johnson
garyjohn@spocom.com
Wed Aug 8 16:58:00 GMT 2012
On 2012-08-08, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 11:11 AM, AngusC wrote:
> >
> DO NOT TOP POST !
>
> >I did try the --include way but in Cygwin it didn't work for some reason.
Both of these work fine for me in Cygwin (on Windows XP):
grep -nH -r "my pattern" --include "*.log" .
grep -nH -r "my pattern" --include=*.log .
> >Neither does
> >
> >find "." -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" {} \;
as does that
>
> find "." -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \;
and that.
The quoting of . and {} is not needed.
Perhaps the real problem is with "my pattern".
Regards,
Gary
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