problem using recursive grep (-r option)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 9 15:30:00 GMT 2012


On 8/9/2012 2:27 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, AngusC!
>
>
>> This works
>
>> find . -name "*.log" | grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.*
>
> What? This is ridiculous.
> Do you read what you write?

Indeed.  Can we all agree that this thread has drifted far enough away
from anything Cygwin-specific that it can be termed off-topic now?
Let's let the thread die.

-- 
Larry

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