Re: grep problem?

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Hi Philip,

Your command, as given below, will cause the shell the to expand '*.h' to
include all the files matching '*.h' in the current directory. To prevent
the shell from expanding the pattern, and just send it to grep, enclose
the pattern in a pair of quotes, ie,

grep -r --include='*.h' sometext .

You could also escape the wildcard, ie,

grep -r --include=\*.h sometext .

Cheers,

TAA

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On Thu, 4 May 2006 address@hidden wrote:

> I am finding that if my directory and/or subdirectory names have spaces in
> them (I am running cynwin under Windows XP), then the following form of
> grep does not work:
>
> grep -r --include=*.h sometext .
>
> (there is a dot or period at the end there)
>
> If I am in the directory where I know the file/text is and enter the
> above, it still does not find it. However if I enter:
>
> grep sometext *.h
>
> it does find it.
>