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Re: grep
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: grep |
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Thu, 06 Jun 2002 17:48:36 -0400 |
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"Tuan Nguyen" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I want to report a bug. The grep -r went down to the directories,
> but it then went "upward" to the root after finishing at the
> subdirectories??
...
> address@hidden root]# grep -lis -r autostart .* *
.* is expanded by the shell to all dotfiles including "..". Since
grep sees an explicit "..", it will descend there. You could use a
different shell pattern to exclude "..":
grep -lis -r autostart .[!.]* ..?* *
paul
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