RE: bug in fgrep from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ - problem solved

[Jack Thompson]

Thanks Chuck - fgrep "def" *.* works fine - unfortunately I don't have a
real shell to work with, and I don't want to download cygwin right now -
but I might soon if I can't get the dev studio to work right.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:23 AM
To: Jack Thompson
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: bug in fgrep from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Jack Thompson wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply.  My ESP is quite limited, so I better
just
> paste my command ...
> 
> fgrep -r "def" *.py
[ ... ]
> When I work on UNIX systems, I usually just use find and pipe the
files
> through grep - maybe I'm not using fgrep right????

You can't combine shell expansion of the asterisk with -r, because -r
wants the 
names of directories, whereas the "*.py" matches only Python files.

Consider the following:

        fgrep -r "def" .
        fgrep "def" *.py */*.py */*/*.py
        fgrep "def" **/*.py             # this depends on your shell
        find . -name "*.py" | xargs fgrep "def"
        find . -name "*.py" -print0 | xargs -0 fgrep "def"

-- 
-Chuck