Re: grep recursive problem

[Eric Backus]

"Stepan Kasal" <address@hidden> wrote in message
news:address@hidden
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:35:28AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > C:\Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7>grep --recursive WM_PAINT *.h
> > grep: *.h: Invalid argument
>
> this searches for *.h in current dir.  There is no such file.
>
> > grep --recursive WM_PAINT *.h
>
> This doesn't search subdirectories.
>
> What you need is
> grep --recursive --include=*.h WM_PAINT
>
> The --include option is available in GNU grep version 2.5 and newer,
> so you have to upgrade.

Another possibility is

    find . -path '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 grep WM_PAINT /dev/null

This doesn't require upgrading grep.

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Eric Backus
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Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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