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Re: problem using recursive grep (-r option)


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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