Re: Filename pattern in grep --include=....

[Brian Dessent]

Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote:

> >From the grep man-page:
> 
>        --include=PATTERN
>               Recurse in directories only searching file matching
> PATTERN.
> 
> What type of PATTERN can be used here (i.e. glob, regex, extended regex,
> etc.)?

grep is not a part of coreutils, so you're asking in the wrong list.

But if it were me, I would try something like:

$ find D -name no\* -o -name uh\* -print0 | xargs -0 grep abc

The 'find' command is designed specifically for this purpose and has
many more features and knobs for recursion, compared to trying to make
grep do this job.

Brian