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Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)
- From: marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:57:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)
- References: <34266659.post@talk.nabble.com>
On 8/7/2012 5:08 PM, AngusC wrote:
If I use the command:
grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.*
I get results back as expected
But if the file pattern is like this:
grep -nH -r "my pattern" *.log
I get no results back (Even though I have a ton of files with this pattern
with .log file extension).
Am I doing something wrong?
in the second case the "-r" is looking for *.log
file or directories and I guess the directory does not match.
Try
find . -name "*.log" -exec grep -nH "my pattern" \{\} \;
Regards
Marco
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