Re: grep -R "include" *.c --- not working

[Eric Backus]

"Bob Proulx" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > Damian Gutierrez wrote:
> > > > grep -R "include" *.c
> >
> > this searches for *.c in current dir.  There is no such file.
> > This doesn't search subdirectories.
> >
> > What you meant is
> >         grep -R --include='*.c' include .
>
> Call me a purist but I still think finding files is best left to find.
>
>  find . -name '*.c' -print0 | xargs -r0 grep include
>
> Bob

find . -name '*.c' -print0 | xargs -r0 grep include /dev/null

This ensures that grep always preceeds the match with a filename, even if 
there's only one file found.

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Eric Backus