Re: your mail

[Bob Proulx]

Doug Clement <address@hidden> [2002-12-09 12:37:50 -0600]:
> grep does not appear to be recursively searching.  The command I used was:
> 
> grep -R MEASUREMENT *.*
> 
> 
> It finds the files in the current directory, but not the lower directories.
> If I use   ls -R, all the files are listed.
> 
> Is this an error, or am I doing something wrong?

If you are going to use -r then don't specify a file pattern but use
the current directory instead.  The '.' means the current directory.

  grep -r MEASUREMENT .

Bob