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RE: Wildcard problem with recursion
- From: "Ajith Kumar" <ajithkumar dot r at tallysolutions dot com>
- To: "'Andy Rushton'" <ajr1 at ecs dot soton dot ac dot uk>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:50:23 +0530
- Subject: RE: Wildcard problem with recursion
- Reply-to: <ajithkumar dot r at tallysolutions dot com>
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
Of Andy Rushton
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:32 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Wildcard problem with recursion
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
>
>
>>Cygwin utilities like grep or ls with -R options doesn't seem to be
working.
>>egs when I say
>>
>>
>>>grep -r FLD_DCT_STRING *.h??
>>>
>>>
>>I get
>>grep: *.hpp: No such file or directory
>>
>>However there are many .h, .hxx and .hpp files in the subdirectories
>>
>>ls also gives the same err.
>>
>>Any solutons?
>>
>>
>
>Yes, read the shell man pages to learn how file completion works.
>What you want is a job for `find | xargs grep'.
>
>
Thanks for the xargs tip Corinna - thats a new one on me.
an alternative (talking to original poster here) is:
grep FLD_DCT_STRING `find . -name '*.h??'` ------------------------------ 1
Or you can search *directories* recursively with grep, but this doesn't
allow you to filter the file type. e.g.:
grep -r FLD_DCT_STRING . ------------------------------- 2
where '.' is the current directory - this will search all files in
subdirectories too. See 'info grep'.
Andy
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The command 2 works fine. However 1 fails revereting to my original problem.
If I execute the find command alone I get
D:\views\aj_pvt\Tally63>find . -name '*.h??'
File not found - '*.h??'
or
D:\views\aj_pvt\Tally63>find . -name *.h??
File not found - *.h??
I did n't reply my previous cygwin installation. As u see I use the Win2k
cmd prompt
Regards,
ajith
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