From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Wildcard problem with recursion
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031023101419.GA1653@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000301c39949$0dc87850$9c01a8c0@shakti.tallysolutions.com>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote:
> Cygwin utilities like grep or ls with -R options doesn't seem to be working.
> egs when I say
> >grep -r FLD_DCT_STRING *.h??
> I get
> grep: *.hpp: No such file or directory
>
> However there are many .h, .hxx and .hpp files in the subdirectories
>
> ls also gives the same err.
>
> Any solutons?
Yes, read the shell man pages to learn how file completion works.
What you want is a job for `find | xargs grep'.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-23 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 10:05 Ajith Kumar
2003-10-23 12:54 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2003-10-24 10:47 ` Andy Rushton
2003-10-25 10:17 ` Ajith Kumar
2003-10-25 10:03 ` Ajith Kumar
2003-10-25 16:54 ` Hannu E K Nevalainen
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