Re: bug in fgrep from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

[John.Cowan]

Jack Thompson scripsit:

> Thanks for your quick reply.  My ESP is quite limited, so I better just
> paste my command ...
> 
> fgrep -r "def" *.py

That fails (as it will on Unix as well) because you are telling fgrep to
look only at files matching "*.py", none of which are directories.
So the -r option does you no good at all.

> When I work on UNIX systems, I usually just use find and pipe the files
> through grep - maybe I'm not using fgrep right????

That is indeed the Right Thing.  You may want to install Cygwin, which is
a comprehensive Unix environment for Windows.  (It's the first thing I
put on any new Windows box I get my hands on.)

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